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Bug#706286: pre-approve: libpng/1.2.49-4



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Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> (27/04/2013):
> I identified three packages that don't ship a SONAME symlink and cause
> spurious creation and removal of this link by ldconfig. Spurious since
> the packages themselves don't call ldconfig, so another installation
> will trigger the ldconfig run - 2 seconds or 2 months later.
> 
> As this makes the (dis-)appearance nondeterministic, this could produce
> heisenbugs that will be hard to debug. So better ship the link in the
> package and let dpkg instead of ldconfig manage creation/removal.

See my reply to libusb (#706281), the same applies.

Mraw,
KiBi.

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