Provide shlibs informations in the debian package

[mathias-lang-sociomantic]

It will be needed by an upcoming MakD release: sociomantic-tsunami/makd#85
You will probably need dh_shlibdeps. Feel free to reach to me IRL so we can test it together.

[andreas-bok-sociomantic]

So for the ship part the fpm flag --deb-shlibs, https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm/wiki should be used?

--deb-shlibs SHLIBS    (deb only) Include control/shlibs content. This flag 
                       expects a string that is used as the contents of the 
                       shlibs file. See the following url for a description of 
                       this file and its format: 
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-shlibs

But it is not clear to me how the shlibs information is to be generated without getting into all the debian packaging magic, https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dreq.en.html

[andreas-bok-sociomantic]

I assume we need to pass an argument to --deb-shlibs akin to this,
https://github.com/dimensio/libpng16-deb/blob/429f5e896614543471a523d88ee262a43fab233e/Makefile#L44

@leandro-lucarella-sociomantic is the debhelper tools (dh_shlibdeps) required to get the value to pass or does the value only relate to the version of the library, which we anyway extract in the fpm build script

[leandro-lucarella-sociomantic]

To be honest this shlibs thing is good to me, so I would have to go through all the docs myself before being able to answer any questions. Let me know if you still need my help.

[bokchan]

@leandro-lucarella-sociomantic. Is this still relevant/required for compatibility with makd?
AFAICS the referenced issue (sociomantic-tsunami/makd#85) has been closed without merge.

[leandro-lucarella-sociomantic]

I think we can just assume fpm packaging is pretty basic and the packages provided here are not complete/good. Ideally the Debian tools should be used to create the packages, but for now I don't think it makes sense to spend time on this...