[Fink-devel] Much wrong use of shlibs field

[Ben H. <bh...@al...>]

It seems most fink packages are using the () field in the Shlibs field 
improperly. The () number is not supposed to be updated unless the 
compatibility version changes. For example, xaw3d's Shlibs field should 
probably not be (>= 1.5-5). In all likelihood, it should be (>= 1.5-1) 
even though the package is at rev 5.

Additionally, A number of packages (including one of mine :) have (>= 
%v-%r) as the version for the shlibs field. This is usually wrong, the 
number in () is supposed to be the first package version that provided 
that library compat version. If you make it %v-%r, then it will likely 
not be changed by you when you go to revision 2 of a package, when in 
reality it should be left at -1. (since you are probably still 
providing the same compat version as the last revision)

See http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/policy.php#sharedlibs 
under shlibs field. It might take a few reads to understand. :)

I think we should make validate warn about (>= %v-%r) in the Shlibs 
field, any objections?

unstable/main/finkinfo 249 % f Shlibs | egrep '%v-%r'
gnome/control-center-2.0.3-2.info:  Shlibs: 
%p/lib/libgnome-window-settings.1.dylib %n (>= %v-%r)
libs/libcdk-4.9.10-1.info:Shlibs: %p/lib/libcdk.4.dylib 4.0.0 %n (>= 
%v-%r)
libs/libproplist-0.10.1-4.info:  Shlibs: %p/lib/libPropList.0.dylib %n 
(>= %v-%r)
libs/libusb-0.1.7-1.info:  Shlibs: %p/lib/libusb-0.1.4.dylib 8.0.0 %n 
(>= %v-%r)
libs/pth-1.4.0-6.info:  Shlibs: %p/lib/libpth.14.dylib 15.0.0 %n (>= 
%v-%r)
sci/gsl-1.2-1.info: Shlibs: %p/lib/libgsl.0.dylib 4.0.0 %n (>= %v-%r)
x11-wm/windowmaker-0.80.1-2.info:  Shlibs: %p/lib/libwraster.2.dylib 
5.0.0 %n (>= %v-%r)


-Ben