Re: lintian: binary-or-shlib-defines-rpath
On Thu, 09 May 2002, Marc Haber wrote:
> From the docs I found, there is no legitimate reason for any package
> to define rpath on a Debian system. Is this correct? Does this also
Yes, for libraries. Plugins may use/need rpath.
> apply to other Linux systems?
Not really, depends on who you ask.
> to do so without seriously breaking something. Could anybody more
> knowledgeable help me with this?
There is a rpath-reaper packaged for Debian (I don't recall the name), it
will "fix" the binaries the hard way.
> Is it adiviseable to ask upstream to refrain from setting rpath, or am
> I being unreasonable here?
Don't bother, someone will ask him to provide rpath as soon as he removes
it. You could, however, ask him to FIX the --disable-rpath functionality...
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