Bug#259302: Patch update against base-files 3.1
At Thu, 2 Dec 2004 12:37:23 +0100 (CET),
Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>
> > Conclusion:
> >
> > - I would like to see those links in sarge (for amd64 only, no change
> > for other archs) since they are currently essential for amd64 (glibc
> > relies on it). What package provides them is no that important. In
> > base-files it is realy simple to do so.
> >
> > - If the links are split out of base-files into other debs and those
> > don't make it to sarge I would still rather patch base-files for
> > sarge amd64 before I touch anything else. It is the simplest place
> > to put them.
>
> My conclusion: As the symlinks will not be there forever, it's glibc
> who relies on them, and there might be potential problems at the time
> of removing them if they are not in the same package as the dynamic
> linker or libc6, I consider the glibc package should be the one to
> manage the symlinks.
Looking at the patch, there're two symlinks: /lib64 and
/usr/X11R6/lib64. We don't touch /usr/X11R6 in libc6.
Andreas, is it nice to symlink from /lib to /lib64 ? I agree we have
/lib64 on amd64.
Regards,
-- gotom
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