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Re: Unversioned .so file in /usr/lib vs dh_makeshlibs vs postinst-must-call-ldconfig



> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 13:33:17 +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I tried to prepare and NMU to fix an RC bug #553111, which is
> > postinst-must-call-ldconfig.
> >
> > I found that adding missing call to dh_makeshlibs does not fix the
> > issue, because package installs a private shared library to
> > /usr/lib/libxxx.so, and dh_makeshlibs does not add call to ldconfig to
> > postinst/postrm if it finds unversioned libraries.
> >
> > Is that a bug in debhelper, or in lintian (i.e.
> > postinst-must-call-ldconfig is false-positive)?
>
> I'd say it's a bug in the package because private objects shouldn't be
> installed in /usr/lib directly.

Probably, however some packages do use that, and AFAIK this is not RC... or 
not?

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