Bug#1061248: glibc: DEP17: move most files but rtld to /usr
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 07:39:04PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> I shall rework the patch and also exempt multilib rtlds from moving. I'm
> sorry for not having realized this. I suspect that dumat would have
> reported this problem.
This seems pretty much unfxiable to me now.
Essentially, keeping all (including multilib) rtlds aliased works badly
with the matching in debian/debhelper.in/libc-alt.install. Trying to
refine those patterns in a way that retains the rtlds aliased while
moving everything else is quite difficult, because sometimes SLIBDIR and
RTLDDIR overlap. Even if managing this, it breaks my simplistic approach
to fixing symlinks.
When base-files gains the aliasing links, we can move both files from
SLIBDIR and RTLDDIR restoring this simplicity. The value we gain from
moving files in SLIBDIR now already seems to diminish given the
complexity it would incur.
If we disregard SLIBDIR moves, not much is left in my patch. Essentially
all we can move is ldconfig and moving that now or later doesn't pose a
significant difference.
So it seems, that the proposed change is not very useful in the end.
I've learned a few things about how to do the coordinated NMU move and
that's about it, it seems. Sorry for the noise.
Is it ok, to repurpose and leave open this bug open for the later upload
moving all of the files or do you prefer a new bug then?
Helmut
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