Bug#532022: libncursesw5-dbg: installs files in the wrong directory

[Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com>]

Hi Sven, 

On Thursday 03 September 2009 09:31:19 Sven Joachim wrote:
> found 532022 5.7+20090607-1
> retitle 532022 libncursesw5-dbg: does not ship detached debugging symbols
> severity 532022 normal
> thanks
>
> On 2009-06-05 21:32 +0200, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > Package: libncursesw5-dbg
> > Version: 5.7+20090523-1
> > Severity: grave
>
> I disagree with the severity, as explained below.

Looks like I forgot to close this bug report some time ago, and it got "fixed" 
when there was actually nothing to fix.

>
> > $ dpkg -L libncursesw5-dbg
> > [...]
> > /usr/lib/debug/libticw.so.5.7
> > /usr/lib/debug/libformw.so.5.7
> > /usr/lib/debug/libpanelw.so.5.7
> > /usr/lib/debug/libncursesw.so.5.7
> > /usr/lib/debug/libmenuw.so.5.7
> > /usr/lib/debug/libmenuw.so.5
> > /usr/lib/debug/libpanelw.so.5
> > /usr/lib/debug/libticw.so.5
> > /usr/lib/debug/libformw.so.5
> > /usr/lib/debug/libncursesw.so.5
> >
> > But the shlibs are installed in /lib/, not in /; so the files
> > in /usr/lib/debug should be moved to /usr/lib/debug/*lib*/
>
> No, and had the maintainer looked at the lintian warnings and errors¹, he
> would not have done that.  These files are not detached debugging
> symbols, but rather a debug version of the library, built with different
> options (which, due to a packaging mistake, causes interesting problems
> like #365120²).

You are right. I even wrote the debug-symbols-directly-in-usr-lib-debug 
lintian check right after I filed the report. Had ncurses indeed be bogus 
that tag would have been emitted.

Thanks for pointing that out.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Developer
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