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Bug#66023: PROPOSAL] Treat plugins and shared libraries differently



On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 03:35:08PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> I agree with the spirit of this proposal, but the wording should be more
> explicit about what happens if the package wishes to add its directory into
> ld.so.conf. The Xaw library replacements do that, but it's not regulated by
> the Policy.

Our Xaw-replacement handling is seriously pathological in every sense of
the term.

This will no longer be a concern in woody.  With XFree86 4.0.1, libXaw is
coming out of xlib6g and can be handled with the normal
Conflicts/Replaces/Provides mechanism.

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