Bug#911867: RFS: frr/6.0.1-1 [ITP]
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 06:00:08PM +0200, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> David Lamparter wrote:
> > Symbols files are only applicable to libraries providing a stable ABI.
> > This is explicitly not the case for FRRouting (hence also the 0.0.0
> > .so version.)
>
> Hmm, if a shared library does not provide a stable ABI it should not
> be shipped as public library. Please consider installing it at
> /usr/lib/frr or something similar. That way, you won't clutter
> /usr/lib, your package will be compliant with Policy and as a bonus
> you'd get rid of the (legitimate) lintian warnings.
Good point, done, latest version on mentors uses /usr/lib/$multiarch/frr/
However, now I have package-has-unnecessary-activation-of-ldconfig-trigger
to deal with...
-David
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