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Bug#528975: lintian: Check for files in /usr/lib64



On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 21:48 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: 
> Some packages ship a file in /usr/lib64/ on amd64, which 
> is a symlink (provided by libc6).  This breaks the system
> when that package is removed.
> 
> No package should ship a file in the directories /lib64/ or
> /usr/lib64/, this is always an error.
> 
> The only package that should have /lib64 or /usr/lib64 in it's
> package is libc6, but as symlink.

fwiw, there's still one other package shipping /usr/lib64 (at least on
amd64) - hardinfo.

> There is also some udeb that
> has that symlink, but I can't remember in which package it is.

That's rootskel.

Regards,

Adam



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