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8.6.4.1 The ‘shlibs’ files present on the system
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There are several places where ‘shlibs’ files are found.  The following
list gives them in the order in which they are read by ‘dpkg-shlibdeps’.
(The first one which gives the required information is used.)

‘debian/shlibs.local’

     This lists overrides for this package.  This file should normally
     not be used, but may be needed temporarily in unusual situations to
     work around bugs in other packages, or in unusual cases where the
     normally declared dependency information in the installed ‘shlibs’
     file for a library cannot be used.  This file overrides information
     obtained from any other source.

‘/etc/dpkg/shlibs.override’

     This lists global overrides.  This list is normally empty.  It is
     maintained by the local system administrator.

‘DEBIAN/shlibs’ files in the “build directory”

     These files are generated as part of the package build process and
     staged for inclusion as control files in the binary packages being
     built.  They provide details of any shared libraries included in
     the same package.

‘shlibs’ control files for packages installed on the system

     The ‘shlibs’ control files for all the packages currently installed
     on the system.  These files can be read using ‘dpkg-query
     --control-show package shlibs’.

‘/etc/dpkg/shlibs.default’

     This file lists any shared libraries whose packages have failed to
     provide correct ‘shlibs’ files.  It was used when the ‘shlibs’
     setup was first introduced, but it is now normally empty.  It is
     maintained by the ‘dpkg’ maintainer.

If a ‘symbols’ file for a shared library package is available,
‘dpkg-shlibdeps’ will always use it in preference to a ‘shlibs’, with
the exception of ‘debian/shlibs.local’.  The latter overrides any other
‘shlibs’ or ‘symbols’ files.