Bug#968525: lintian: breakout-link reported for /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) -> /lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) symlinks
On 2021-09-19 13:03, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Hi Aurelien,
>
> On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 12:15 PM Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > My question is why this new breakout-link tag has been added
>
> The tag was implemented in response to Bug#243158. [1] I am not sure
> about Yann's original suggestion, but I hope the tag is useful to
> prevent links to /opt, for example.
It seems to me that the original bug is about internal lintian bugs that
are not able to handle the symlinks.
> Prior to Glibc, I encountered only packages in which links and shared
> objects shared a parent folder.
Well there are a few other ones, libgpg-error-dev is one of them, even
if the number has decreased recently.
Now in the same spirit as in #993955, I am not sure you actually want to
push maintainers to move libraries from /lib to /usr/lib until there is
a clear plan for usrmerge and bookworm.
Also please note that even if fedora has finished the usrmerge
transition, they still ship glibc .so as a relative symlink to the
library in /lib.
Regards,
Aurelien
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