Because of this: Outstanding bugs -- Serious (policy violations or makes package unfit for release); Unclassified (1 bug)
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 16:11:07 -0400, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: > >> Package: tsocks >> Version: 1.8beta5-9.1 >> Severity: serious >> >> tsocks distributes a shared library without an SONAME in /usr/lib. It >> should either gain an SONAME or be moved to a private directory such as >> /usr/lib/tsocks. >> > Why do you think that's a serious bug? > >> Chapter 8 of the Debian Policy Manual states that: >> >> Instead the shared library is loaded by its SONAME, which exists on >> the file system as a symlink pointing to the full name of the shared >> library. This symlink must be provided by the package. >> >> Since this shared library does not have an SONAME, the symlink doesn't >> exist, violating a "must" requirement of the policy. >> > That applies to libraries that other packages link against, not ones > that are loaded via LD_PRELOAD. > > Cheers, > Julien > > > -- VWOL Tamas SZERB <t...@rulez.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
