r454: * dh_makeshlibs: don't follow links to .so files. Instead, we will look

[debhelper.git] / dh_makeshlibs

diff --git a/dh_makeshlibs b/dh_makeshlibs
index fe31f5ff7319743df5b8b3dff84aa8c81654e0fd..e80066887583a6a4370413cf52353f29884675b2 100755 (executable)
--- a/dh_makeshlibs
+++ b/dh_makeshlibs
@@ -82,7 +82,14 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
 
        doit("rm", "-f", "$tmp/DEBIAN/shlibs");
 
-       open (FIND, "find $tmp -xtype f -name '*.so*' |");
+       # So, we look for files or links to existing files with names that
+       # match "*.so*". Matching *.so.* is not good enough because of
+       # broken crap like db3. And we only look at real files not
+       # symlinks, so we don't accidentually add shlibs data to -dev
+       # packages. This may have a few false positives, which is ok,
+       # because only if we can get a library name and a major number from
+       # objdump is anything actually added.
+       open (FIND, "find $tmp -type f -name '*.so*' |");
        while (<FIND>) {
                my ($library, $major) = 
                        `objdump -p $_` =~ m/\s+SONAME\s+(.+)\.so\.(.+)/;