Bug#528975: lintian: Check for files in /usr/lib64
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 06:22:39PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 21:48 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > Some packages ship a file in /usr/lib64/ on amd64, which
> > is a symlink (provided by libc6). This breaks the system
> > when that package is removed.
>
> Where "that package" is libc6 or the other packages installing direct in
> to the *64 directories? I only ask because from a quick test in a
> chroot, installing and purging such a package (hardinfo, predictably :-)
Last time I've tried that, the /usr/lib64 symlink was gone,
and I think that was in the past year. Maybe something changed
in dpkg in the mean time.
Kurt
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