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Bug#630174: debian-policy: forbid installation into /lib64



On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:58:02PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 13:49:53 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

> > Currently, section 9.1.1 relaxes the FHS requirement that /lib64 and
> > /usr/lib64 be used, but it doesn't prohibit installing files in that
> > location.  However, due to the way Debian handles this (with symlinks),
> > bad things happen in terms of tracking files and conflicts if packages
> > install files into /lib64 and /usr/lib64 and rely on these symlinks.

> > I think we should instead prohibit (must not) installing files into
> > /lib64 and /usr/lib64 in packages with architecture amd64.

> Sounds sensible to me.

I agree.

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