Re: Must a source package's shared libraries always be spit into separate binary packages?
Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:03:47PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Yes, installing the libraries in /usr/lib.
> For such packages with libraries without sonames, one should just make
> something up?
If the library is not suitable to being treated like a regular library,
that's the case where rpath is the right option.
Modifying ld.so.conf is really never the right option, and I expect we'll
probably drop that from Policy post-etch. Steve has the evaluation of
that exactly right.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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