Hi Clint,

On 2016-06-15 21:42, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> I thought my recent changes would have properly fixed this bug as well,
> but now I realized that fakeroot.postrm tried to clean up something that
> the libfakeroot package is responsible for ...
> So I'd suggest to just ship the SONAME symlink that would be created by
> ldconfig anyway - no need for manual cleanup in maintainer scripts.
> (That's also what the policy says about SONAME symlinks.)
> Due to use of ld.so.conf.d ldconfig is unsuitable for doing the removal
> itself since at the time when the ldconfig trigger actually runs, the
> config snippet may have gone away already.
> Since that symlink is not used at all by fakeroot, it does not really
> matter to which of teh two variants it points.
> 
> A single commit can be found in 
> 
> git://git.debian.org/git/users/anbe/tmp/fakeroot.git

Patch rebased onto current git.

I'd really like to see this fixed for stretch, since it pops up in quite
a number of piuparts tests.
I could also NMU it if you need help.


Andreas

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