Re: Erratum Re: Base package/shared library issues (was: Bug#2436 ...)

[david@elo.ods.com (David Engel)]

> > OK, shared library maintainers, listen up.  You need to make two
> > changes to your packages.
> ...
> >   Futhermore, and THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, the symlink
> > must be placed before the library it points to in the .deb file.  The
> > way to currently ensure the ordering is done properly is to create the
> > symlink in the appropriate debian-tmp/.../lib directory before
> > installing the library when you build the package.
> 
> Unfortunately David has it backwards here.  The package must contain
> the shared library before the symlink.  This is so that by the time
> dpkg comes to install the symlink (overwriting the previous symlink
> pointing at an older version of the library) the new shared library is
> already in place.

Damn!  Ian's right.  Sorry for the wrong directions.  I had it right
in the messages when I first brought this up a few weeks ago.

David
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