Re: -rpath and policy?

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 08:56:12AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
>> >> Anything that uses -rpath will break in sarge+1 when/if multiarch is
>> >> introduced.
>> >
>> > So why does policy not mention it?
>> 
>> People probably thought it was common sense and not worth adding to
>> policy? Maybe you should send a proposal to add it?
>
> More likely no one has actually done the work.  Policy is supposed to
> document practice.
>
> -- 
>  - mdz

Lintian complains about use of rpath (not sure for how long) so any
recently build package should have gotten the warning.

MfG
        Goswin