Bug#856968: /usr/bin/whereis: does not find multiarch libraries

2017-03-08 Thread Phil Susi
On 3/8/2017 12:57 PM, Ben Longbons wrote: > Since multiarch is a Debian-specific change, upstream has nothing to > do with this. Looks to me like Debian multiarch decided to start putting libraries in different architecture specific subdirectories of /lib, and whereis simply has not been updated t

Bug#856968: /usr/bin/whereis: does not find multiarch libraries

2017-03-08 Thread Ben Longbons
For libc.so, it only returns the location of the manpage, not the libraries. It should return `/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so` Try e.g. `whereis libxdg-basedir.so` when `libxdg-basedir-dev` is installed. It returns the location of the libraries. (non-multiarch l

Bug#856968: /usr/bin/whereis: does not find multiarch libraries

2017-03-06 Thread Andreas Henriksson
Control: tags -1 + unreproducible moreinfo wontfix upstream Hello Ben Longbons, On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 10:22:06AM -0800, Ben Longbons wrote: > Package: util-linux > Version: 2.29.1-1 > Severity: important > File: /usr/bin/whereis > > Dear Maintainer, > > On other systems, including old release

Bug#856968: /usr/bin/whereis: does not find multiarch libraries

2017-03-06 Thread Ben Longbons
Package: util-linux Version: 2.29.1-1 Severity: important File: /usr/bin/whereis Dear Maintainer, On other systems, including old releases of Debian, the command `whereis libc.so` will return the paths to libc.so *and* libc.a On Debian, this only works for non-multiarch'ed libraries. Although th