Steve Langasek wrote:
severity 378241 important
thanks
On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:48:15AM -0400, Charles Fry wrote:
Packages containing shared libraries that may be linked to by other
packages' binaries, but which for some compelling reason can not be
installed in /usr/lib directory, may install the shared library files
in subdirectories of the /usr/lib directory, in which case they
should arrange to add that directory in /etc/ld.so.conf in the
package's post-installation script, and remove it in the package's
post-removal script.
If I understand this correctly, if there was a compelling reason to use
a /usr/lib subdirectory (I don't know what that woudl be), then
/etc/ld.so.cnof would need to be updated.
I think that suggestion in policy is worse than using rpath and that this
ought to be revised.
But anyway, this is not in the list of RC issues for etch, so downgrading.
Is it compliant with the policy to keep the .so-files in
/usr/lib/courier-authlib and point symlinks from /usr/lib to the .so-files ?
That would ease this task a lot, because AFAIK the configure script
provides no means to put the libraries into /usr/lib.
Bye
Racke
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