Re: predepends on libc6?

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@comp.brad.ac.uk>]

dark@xs4all.nl (Richard Braakman) writes:

> However, chapter 12 of the packaging manual says:
> 
>  Secondly, your package should include the symlink that ldconfig
>  would create for the shared libraries.
>
> and:
> 
>  If you do the above your package does not need to call ldconfig in
>  its maintainer scripts.

The packaging manual is wrong; this is a long standing bug.
 
> Why is it calling ldconfig?

Because it's the Right thing to do.

-- 
James


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