Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.3.1
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
on irc the issue was raised that a package didn't call ldconfig in
postinst and I thought to myself: Every library package has a call to
ldconfig? That is so stupid. Don't we have dpkg triggers for that sort
of thing now?
As it turns out dpkg triggers are inadequate for the job because:
- file triggers are executed before the file changes, ldconfig must
run after
- file triggers on directories include subdirs, no need to run
ldconfig is /lib/modules/* changes
- file triggers can't have wildcards (at least the docs don't mention
it) so /usr/lib/*.so.* wont work either.
- an explicit trigger would mean every package needs to call
dpkg-trigger saving nothing for maintainer scripts, would only reduce
the number of ldconfig runs
So what we would need here would be a non-recursive directory trigger
on /lib and /usr/lib that runs at the end of a dpkg run or possibly
before every postinst.
[The other (not dpkg related) change to allow a single ldconfig run at
the end would be in policy requiring libraries to include the link
ldconfig would create. That is currently only a should directive.]
MfG
Goswin
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