Bug#968525: lintian: breakout-link reported for /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) -> /lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) symlinks

To: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Cc: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@debian.org>, 968525@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#968525: lintian: breakout-link reported for /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) -> /lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) symlinks
From: Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 21:15:25 +0200
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On 2021-09-16 16:56, Felix Lechner wrote:
> Hi Aurelien,
> 
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 4:00 PM Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Why is that supposed to be an issue?
> 
> I do not know, but the relocation error shows that the shared library
> installed in /lib by libgpg-error0 is not found unless
> libgpg-error0-dev ships a "breakout" link in /usr/lib.

I guess I wasn't very clear. My question is why this new breakout-link
tag has been added, and how is this supposed to be an issue. Things have
been like that in the glibc package for 20 years, so I wonder why this
issue suddenly popped-up. I can't find anything in the Debian Policy
forbidding that.

Regards,
Aurelien

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B
aurelien@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net

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- Bug#968525: lintian: breakout-link reported for /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) -> /lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) symlinks
  - From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@debian.org>
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- Bug#968525: lintian: breakout-link reported for /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) -> /lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) symlinks
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