Bug#519941: 10.2 Libraries recommends use of /etc/ld.so.conf instead of /etc/ld.so.conf.d

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> This recommendation needs to be elminated entirely.  It is *not* ok for
> packages that provide libraries to stick extra linker paths in the
> global configuration, whether by modifying ld.so.conf or by adding to
> /etc/ld.so.conf.d.  Either the libraries provided by the packages are
> meant to be public, in which case they should be installed to the
> standard library path instead of needlessly adding another directory
> that's going to be globally visible anyway; or they should not, and the
> cooperating packages should use rpath instead.

I received no major pushback from my message to debian-devel and several
affected packages, so given that and the number of seconds, I'm merging
this change for the next release of Policy.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>