#721024 dpkg-shlibdeps failed, but alien did not tell anybody

Package:
alien
Source:
alien
Submitter:
Harald Dunkel
Date:
2013-08-29 09:51:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#721024#5
Date:
2013-08-27 10:28:47 UTC
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To convert a *.tar.gz to *.deb alien seems to run several
debhelper programs internally. Problem is: If dpkg-shlibdeps
goes wrong due to a missing *.so file, then the error message
is not shown and alien seems to succeed. The package doesn't
have _any_ Depends in this case.

Of course you get the error message later at run time, but I
would prefer to avoid this.

Using --veryverbose I see the error message, but alien still
seems to succeed.


Regards
Harri
#721024#10
Date:
2013-08-27 14:33:40 UTC
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Harald Dunkel wrote:

Alien ignores dpkg-shlibdeps failures intentionally; dependencies from
alien packages to system libraries are necessarily best-effort and can
break in many situations where you still want to get out a converted
package.
#721024#15
Date:
2013-08-29 09:50:00 UTC
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Of course I saw this. The point is to get the error messages
by default (without --veryverbose). The resolvable dependencies
should not be ignored, if some shared objects are not found.