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How do I remove ia32-libs from the Depends line as generated by shlibs:Depends?

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I've created a package which contains 32-bit libraries for compatibility with 32-bit applications on 64-bit systems, stored in /usr/lib32. This causes the ia32-libs dependency being added to my package. However, the package works perfectly fine without those libraries as other 32-bit programs should install ia32-libs themselves.

How do I prevent the build process from generating the ia32-libs dependency? nvidia-current seems to able to do this too, but uses CDBS which I do not use. (I use a plain rules file as generated by dh_make)

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answered 1 Year ago clegian · Accepted Answer

To make debhelper ignore the 32-bit libraries, I had to add a target for ignoring paths containing /usr/lib32:

override_dh_shlibdeps:

    dh_shlibdeps --exclude=/usr/lib32

After that, the ia32-libs dependencies would not be calculated anymore. Since this target is only needed for 64-bit systems, I actually use the below snippet for the virtualgl package:

ifeq ($(DEB_BUILD_ARCH), amd64)

override_dh_shlibdeps:

    dh_shlibdeps --exclude=debian/virtualgl/usr/lib32

endif

Note that the whitespace before dh is a tab.