Bug#231015: libm.so: symlink should be relative

[Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11
Severity: serious

policy 10.5 says: "[...] symbolic links pointing from one top-level
directory into another should be absolute."

This allows me to have /usr being a symlink to a non-top-level dir, and
having libm.so using a relative symlink breaks.  This in turn causes gcc to
pick libm.a since it can't open libm.so, and since libm.a requires libc.a as
opposed to libc.so, I cannot link any program against libm.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux bylbo 2.4.23-k6+preempt+acl #1 sam déc 13 00:48:10 CET 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=français, LC_CTYPE=français

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libdb1-compat                 2.1.3-7    The Berkeley database routines [gl

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