Package: debhelper Version: 7.4.2 Severity: wishlist Hi,
currently the postinst in dh_makeshlibs calls ldconfig. However, when called without arguments, it updates symbolic links, which is useless since they are already correct in the packages themselves. It can also trigger bugs like #549714; here the user has a file he shouldn’t have, but it would not have broken his system without calling ldconfig. Therefore, please call ldconfig -X instead of ldconfig. It will still rebuild the cache, but not update the symlinks. This might save a few disk seeks during upgrades as well. I have discussed this with the glibc maintainers, and they agreed with the idea of this change. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
