Tips about Debian packaging
The main goal of this article is gather quick tips about software packaging in Debian. I will use these tips to help to sponsor third party packages.
debian/rules: adding a SONAME to a library
debian/watch: how to make?
Please, see this post.
dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: package could avoid a useless dependency if FOO was not linked against BAR.so.1.2 (it uses none of the library's symbols)
lintian: hardening-no-relro / hardening-no-fortify-functions
Use blhc...
References:
- https://lintian.debian.org/tags/hardening-no-relro.html
- https://lintian.debian.org/tags/hardening-no-fortify-functions.html
- https://wiki.debian.org/Hardening
- https://wiki.debian.org/HardeningWalkthrough
lintian: how to see Pedantic, Experimental and other messages?
Please, see this post.