Re: lintian W: sharedobject-in-library-directory-not-actually-a-shlib
Hi, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> correct, so it does not belong in /usr/lib, it belongs in
> /usr/lib/snoopy or some such location.
IMHO it doesn't make much sense to create a subdirectory for a single
file. Besides, when developing sometimes you _do_ want to link to this
shared library. (I've done it with libefence.so, for example when the
steps to call the program in question the "normal" way killed LD_PRELOAD.)
Anyway, this special case -- libraries which get preloaded via
ld.so.preload or LD_PRELOAD -- isn't covered by Policy IMHO.
My personal preference is to add a Lintian override, and leave it at that.
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