Help with packaging Herwig++. Won't build.

[Joseph Smidt]

Emilio,

     Thanks a bunch.  I really appreciate it.

                 Joseph Smidt

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:

> Joseph Smidt wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>      I am new at packaging and would like to become motu once I get good at
>> it.  In the meantime I am trying to package various science packages
>> used in high energy physics and could use some help with Herwig++.  The
>> package can be viewed from my PPA:  https://launchpad.net/~jsmidt/+archive.
>>
>>      The problem with the package is it won't build.  I get this error:
>>
>> dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: no dependency information found for
>> /usr/lib/ThePEG/libThePEG.so.6 (used by
>> debian/herwigpp/usr/bin/Herwig++).
>> dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 512
>> make: *** [binary-arch] Error 1
>>
>>      I don't know what "dh_shlibdeps: command returned error code 512"
>> means. Furthermore I am confused it complains about no dependency on
>> ThePeg since I have it as a dependence in the control file.
>
> That's a bug in the 'thepeg' package in your ppa, it's not providing an shlibs
> control file. You need to call dh_makeshlibs in debian/rules, but it's commented
> out.
>
> You can read more information about the shlibs system at [1].
>
> Cheers,
> Emilio
>
> [1]
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-shlibdeps
>

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