Re: the move to stublib

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 05:44:36PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
[...]
> Right now, ocaml-ldconf does (or should do) as follows :
[...]
>   o A new option might be added (-R ?) so that it removes all dirs
>     associated with the given package.

Or for each entry listed in /var/lib/dpkg/ld.conf, make sure there are some
stuff there, otherwise delete it (IIRC this is what Stefano suggested).

[...]
>  Then, we use :
> 
>    o in ocaml-base : dh_ocamlld -i -pocaml-base
> 
>    o in broken libraries : dh_ocamlld -rver.num-deb -pbroken-lib
> 
>    o in legacy libraries : dh_ocamlld -a -plegacy-lib dir_list
> 
>  Where ver.num-deb is the first version of this package which fixes the
>  problem. We then have some code in the postinst, which will check the
>  fixed ver.num-deb against the version to be removed, and call
>  ocaml-ldconf -R -pbroken-lib to remove all spurious entries.

Or let ocaml-base run `ocaml-ldconf -R' and that's all, no need to worry
about package versions.

Denis