Control: reassign -1 libdb5.3 On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 08:58:50PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > severity 780680 normal > thanks
> Adam Heath <doo...@brainfood.com> writes:
> > A library in /lib shouldn't depend on a library in /usr/lib. However,
> > pam_userdb.so has such an issue.
> Arguably pam_userdb.so is not a library, but a plugin. So I don't think
> this is a release critical bug or even a real bug at all, but I'll leave
> the definite decision to the pam maintainers.
> For reference, there are lots of other PAM and NSS modules doing the
> same: libpam-{pgsql,mysql,ldap} and libnss-{pgsql2,mysql-bg,ldap} come
> to mind, but probably many other libpam-* and libnss-* packages are
> doing the same.
The bug, to the extent that there is one, is that the depended-on library is
in /usr instead of in /lib. It's not a bug for pam_userdb to provide this
functionality; it's also not a bug for this module to be shipped in /lib,
as it is a plugin for a library that is (and must be) also in /lib.
But this is not a high-priority bug; for jessie forward, /usr will need to
be mounted from the initramfs, and we should stop worrying about the
root/usr split.
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