Bug#205860: libc6: ld.so.conf should be included
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 01:48:10PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> > Taken from the ldso Description:
> >
> > You do not need this package unless you have very old programs
> > which use libc4 or libc5. The libc6 package has its own dynamic
> > linker that is used for all current programs.
> >
> > The libc6 package contains /sbin/ldconfig, that generates
> > /etc/ld.so.conf. The bug should be reopened, IMHO.
>
> gotom@celesta:~> dpkg -s ldso | grep Priority
> Priority: required
Your dpkg is confused and is reporting old data (which does sometimes
happen; I think there are bug reports about it).
Package: ldso
Priority: optional
Section: oldlibs
Installed-Size: 188
Maintainer: David Engel <david@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: ld.so
Version: 1.9.11-15
Replaces: libc6
Provides: libdl1
Depends: libc6 (>=2.1.94)
Filename: pool/main/l/ld.so/ldso_1.9.11-15_i386.deb
Size: 78980
MD5sum: e36262f73c3229568281e1e3ee38af36
Description: The Linux dynamic linker and library for libc4 and libc5.
This dynamic linker provides the user-level support for loading and
linking DLL and ELF shared libraries. You do not need this package
unless you have very old programs which use libc4 or libc5. The libc6
package has its own dynamic linker that is used for all current
programs.
I'm not sure that libc6 actually needs to generate this file, though.
The comment about its contents in policy is purely informational.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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