weak-library-dev-dependency
This package seems to contain the development files fer a shared library, but the requirement for that shared library to be installed does not include the same version.
A -dev package should normally use (= ${binary:Version})
for the prerequisite on the shared library. That will ensure that programs compile
and link properly. The symbolic links for the dynamic linker will also point to the
correct places.
To be sure, there are some circumstances when a weak prerequisite is warranted, for
example to prevent the breaking of binNMUs with architecture-independent -dev
packages. Then something like (>= ${source:Upstream-Version}), (<<
${source:Upstream-Version}+1~) may be the right approach, or possibly
${source:Version} instead. The goal there is to ensure that a new upstream
version of the library does not satisfy the prerequisite, since any minor version change
might break the *.so links.
For more information please consult:
- Dependencies between the packages of the same library (Section 8.5) in the Debian Policy Manual
The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163.
That is the most recent version we know about.
We use semantic versions.
The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the
2.114.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the detection logic for this version at commit f5107b6. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check debian/control/prerequisite/development.
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