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Re: RFC: expat transition or update - before or after lenny?



Am Montag, den 02.06.2008, 09:16 -0700 schrieb Kevin B. McCarty:
> Adeodato Simó wrote:
> 
> > However, I'm not sure who mentioned this possibility, but shipping
> > /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 within wink sounds very ugly to me.
> 
> It was me that suggested it ...
> 
> > If upstream
> > won't update their binary, and you want to drop the symlink, on possible
> > solution is that wink ships a symlink in /usr/lib/wink/libexpat.so.0,
> > and uses LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/wink from the /usr/bin/wink wrapper
> > script.
> 
> ... but I agree that this proposal is much better, especially since
> /usr/bin/wink is already a wrapper script anyway.

It is the solution, Daniel Baumann - the wink maintainer - accepted. The
fix has been uploaded today.

So an update of libexpat dropping the symlink should be possible now.

Regards, Daniel


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