Re: Plugins cause lintian errors
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 04:19:48PM +0100, Will Newton 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:
>
> 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]
In other words, Lintian is lagging a bit behind Policy. "Move along people,
nothing to see here." :) Esp. because this is a question for debian-mentors.
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