Bug#249122: libc6: ldconfig: Creates spurious libncurses.so.5 symlink
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 12:34:05PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 11:32:21AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> >
> > > However, I still don't think that ldconfig should create symlinks to
> > > symlinks. It certainly didn't do that in woody.
> >
> > Could you tell me the reason?
>
> 1. It didn't do that in woody.
> 2. In this case we're talking about a symlink to a real file in /lib
> which has already been processed by ldconfig. There is no need to have
> another symlink in /usr/lib.
This has already been reported; Jeff, it's the "infamous ldconfig bug"
that we never got around to looking at, but you identified the patch
that introduced it, didn't you?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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