Re: policy on private shared libraries ?
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:22:43PM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> I was wondering whether Section 4.3 of the Policy (Shared Libraries) applies
> to shared libraries that are private to a package. This means in my case
> (package texmacs):
>
> - having /usr/lib/texmacs/lib, containing the shared libraries of my
> package
> - /usr/bin/texmacs is a script setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and then executing
> a binary in /usr/lib/texmacs/bin
>
> Lintian gives my lots of
>
> E: texmacs: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/texmacs/lib/<xxx>.so
>
> Can I ignore these error messages?
That one you can't ignore, but you can ignore the one about .so file not
being in a -dev package, and the one about the missing shlibs file for it.
BTW this is a question for debian-mentors list, not debian-devel.
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