Re: Plugins cause lintian errors
On Thursday 02 Aug 2001 2:15 pm, Andreas Rottmann wrote:
> I think lintian should silently ignore this shared lib, since it's not
> installed into a standard directory (/lib, /usr/lib) and has a
> non-standard name and thus will never be linked by any other package
> (but instead loaded at run-time).
>From the policy:
11.2 Libraries
...
Shared object files (often .so files) that are not public libraries, that is,
they are not meant to be linked to by third party executables (binaries of
other packages), should be installed in subdirectories of the /usr/lib
directory. Such files are exempt from the rules that govern ordinary shared
libraries, except that they must not be installed executable and should be
stripped.[37]
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