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+# Debian package renaming only occurs when a package is built
+# We therefore have to make sure we build all runtime packages
+# before building the current package to make the packages runtime
+# depends are correct
+#
+# Custom library package names can be defined setting
+# DEBIANNAME_ + pkgname to the desired name.
+#
+# Better expressed as ensure all RDEPENDS package before we package
+# This means we can't have circular RDEPENDS/RRECOMMENDS
+
+AUTO_LIBNAME_PKGS = "${PACKAGES}"
+
+inherit package
+
+DEBIANRDEP = "do_packagedata"
+do_package_write_ipk[rdeptask] = "${DEBIANRDEP}"
+do_package_write_deb[rdeptask] = "${DEBIANRDEP}"
+do_package_write_tar[rdeptask] = "${DEBIANRDEP}"
+do_package_write_rpm[rdeptask] = "${DEBIANRDEP}"
+
+python () {
+    if not d.getVar("PACKAGES", True):
+        d.setVar("DEBIANRDEP", "")
+}
+
+python debian_package_name_hook () {
+    import glob, copy, stat, errno, re
+
+    pkgdest = d.getVar('PKGDEST', True)
+    packages = d.getVar('PACKAGES', True)
+    bin_re = re.compile(".*/s?" + os.path.basename(d.getVar("bindir", True)) + "$")
+    lib_re = re.compile(".*/" + os.path.basename(d.getVar("libdir", True)) + "$")
+    so_re = re.compile("lib.*\.so")
+
+    def socrunch(s):
+        s = s.lower().replace('_', '-')
+        m = re.match("^(.*)(.)\.so\.(.*)$", s)
+        if m is None:
+            return None
+        if m.group(2) in '0123456789':
+            bin = '%s%s-%s' % (m.group(1), m.group(2), m.group(3))
+        else:
+            bin = m.group(1) + m.group(2) + m.group(3)
+        dev = m.group(1) + m.group(2)
+        return (bin, dev)
+
+    def isexec(path):
+        try:
+            s = os.stat(path)
+        except (os.error, AttributeError):
+            return 0
+        return (s[stat.ST_MODE] & stat.S_IEXEC)
+
+    def add_rprovides(pkg, d):
+        newpkg = d.getVar('PKG_' + pkg, False)
+        if newpkg and newpkg != pkg:
+            provs = (d.getVar('RPROVIDES_' + pkg, True) or "").split()
+            if pkg not in provs:
+                d.appendVar('RPROVIDES_' + pkg, " " + pkg + " (=" + d.getVar("PKGV", True) + ")")
+
+    def auto_libname(packages, orig_pkg):
+        sonames = []
+        has_bins = 0
+        has_libs = 0
+        for file in pkgfiles[orig_pkg]:
+            root = os.path.dirname(file)
+            if bin_re.match(root):
+                has_bins = 1
+            if lib_re.match(root):
+                has_libs = 1
+                if so_re.match(os.path.basename(file)):
+                    cmd = (d.getVar('TARGET_PREFIX', True) or "") + "objdump -p " + file + " 2>/dev/null"
+                    fd = os.popen(cmd)
+                    lines = fd.readlines()
+                    fd.close()
+                    for l in lines:
+                        m = re.match("\s+SONAME\s+([^\s]*)", l)
+                        if m and not m.group(1) in sonames:
+                            sonames.append(m.group(1))
+
+        bb.debug(1, 'LIBNAMES: pkg %s libs %d bins %d sonames %s' % (orig_pkg, has_libs, has_bins, sonames))
+        soname = None
+        if len(sonames) == 1:
+            soname = sonames[0]
+        elif len(sonames) > 1:
+            lead = d.getVar('LEAD_SONAME', True)
+            if lead:
+                r = re.compile(lead)
+                filtered = []
+                for s in sonames:
+                    if r.match(s):
+                        filtered.append(s)
+                if len(filtered) == 1:
+                    soname = filtered[0]
+                elif len(filtered) > 1:
+                    bb.note("Multiple matches (%s) for LEAD_SONAME '%s'" % (", ".join(filtered), lead))
+                else:
+                    bb.note("Multiple libraries (%s) found, but LEAD_SONAME '%s' doesn't match any of them" % (", ".join(sonames), lead))
+            else:
+                bb.note("Multiple libraries (%s) found and LEAD_SONAME not defined" % ", ".join(sonames))
+
+        if has_libs and not has_bins and soname:
+            soname_result = socrunch(soname)
+            if soname_result:
+                (pkgname, devname) = soname_result
+                for pkg in packages.split():
+                    if (d.getVar('PKG_' + pkg, False) or d.getVar('DEBIAN_NOAUTONAME_' + pkg, False)):
+                        add_rprovides(pkg, d)
+                        continue
+                    debian_pn = d.getVar('DEBIANNAME_' + pkg, False)
+                    if debian_pn:
+                        newpkg = debian_pn
+                    elif pkg == orig_pkg:
+                        newpkg = pkgname
+                    else:
+                        newpkg = pkg.replace(orig_pkg, devname, 1)
+                    mlpre=d.getVar('MLPREFIX', True)
+                    if mlpre:
+                        if not newpkg.find(mlpre) == 0:
+                            newpkg = mlpre + newpkg
+                    if newpkg != pkg:
+                        d.setVar('PKG_' + pkg, newpkg)
+                        add_rprovides(pkg, d)
+        else:
+            add_rprovides(orig_pkg, d)
+
+    # reversed sort is needed when some package is substring of another
+    # ie in ncurses we get without reverse sort: 
+    # DEBUG: LIBNAMES: pkgname libtic5 devname libtic pkg ncurses-libtic orig_pkg ncurses-libtic debian_pn None newpkg libtic5
+    # and later
+    # DEBUG: LIBNAMES: pkgname libtic5 devname libtic pkg ncurses-libticw orig_pkg ncurses-libtic debian_pn None newpkg libticw
+    # so we need to handle ncurses-libticw->libticw5 before ncurses-libtic->libtic5
+    for pkg in sorted((d.getVar('AUTO_LIBNAME_PKGS', True) or "").split(), reverse=True):
+        auto_libname(packages, pkg)
+}
+
+EXPORT_FUNCTIONS package_name_hook
+
+DEBIAN_NAMES = "1"
+