Bug#259302: Patch update against base-files 3.1
GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> writes:
> 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.
3: /lib, /usr/lib and /usr/X11R6/lib.
The /lib64 -> /lib link is essential for the ld to be found and as
Santagio says glibc should take care of it.
The other two links are more a convenience so less software has to be
patched. Since glibc also puts things in /usr/lib it could take care
of that link too. The X11R6 link could possibly come from X11 itself
but currently it comes from the amd64 patched base-files.
If you want to take care of all 3 links in glibc that would be fine.
> Andreas, is it nice to symlink from /lib to /lib64 ? I agree we have
> /lib64 on amd64.
>
> Regards,
> -- gotom
Currently lib64 links to lib and reversing that link would mean
rebuilding every library package because otherwise dpkg-shlibs won't
work. It would mean patching every lib package to build for lib64
instead of the current lib to get correct *.la files and dpkgs *.files
info.
So please don't reverse that link, it would destroy everything we
worked for.
MfG
Goswin
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