Added debian/README.Debian.

Added a note explaining the use of the 'Build-Depends-Package' field.

diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..7faff2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+liboping on Debian
+==================
+
+Notes on using liboping-dev:
+----------------------------
+
+The liboping library provides two functions, namely ping_setopt() and
+ping_iterator_get_info(), whose functionality is defined by a set of numerical
+IDs, each defining a specific feature. New features may be added by adding
+support for additional IDs without breaking the API or ABI. If your software
+uses those functions, make sure to build-depend on the appropriate version of
+liboping-dev. This will also ensure - by means of the 'Build-Depends-Package'
+field in liboping's symbols file (see dpkg-shlibdeps(1) for details) - that
+the resulting binary package depends on the right version of liboping while
+not imposing the latest version on all packages.
+

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index dd73551e91b27e8dee97a8592828b79163ba376a..cb83e07e7b9b15bebd580a4ecc39658c5592e26d 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -36,8 +36,10 @@ liboping (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
       module.
   * debian/liboping0.shlibs:
     - Updated version to >= 1.3.0.
+  * Added debian/README.Debian:
+    - Added a note explaining the use of the 'Build-Depends-Package' field.
 
- -- Sebastian Harl <tokkee@debian.org>  Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:18:35 +0200
+ -- Sebastian Harl <tokkee@debian.org>  Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:20:28 +0200
 
 liboping (0.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low