Bug#660779: ldconfig: should ignore files with names ending in "-gdb.py"

[Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>]

Package: libc-bin
Version: 2.13-24
Severity: normal
File: /sbin/ldconfig

Lately, whenever the ldconfig trigger runs, I see a warning like this:

ldconfig: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.16-gdb.py is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.

The file in question is from libstdc++6-4.6-dbg (>= 4.6.2-6), and (as
the name suggests) is a Python script for use with GDB in connection
with libstdc++.so.6.0.16, and is thus not *supposed* to be an ELF file.
Any other file with a name ending in "-gdb.py" presumably plays the same
role for another library. (Run `info "(gdb) objfile-gdb.py"' or visit
<http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/objfile_002dgdb_002epy-file.html>
for details.)

Thus, ldconfig should probably ignore these files, and should certainly
not expect them to be in ELF format.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

-- no debconf information

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