Bug#90828: lintian and plugins, again

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com>]

On 23-Mar-2001 Bradley Bell wrote:
> I'd like to package ximian's red-carpet, which uses .so files as plugins.
> 
> I thought it was decided a few months ago that .so files which are in
> directories not listed in ld.so.conf would be treated as plugins, and not as
> normal shared libraries, but Lintian still gives me these errors:
> 
> E: red-carpet: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib
> usr/lib/redcarpet/rc-dpkg-helper usr/lib/redcarpet/rc-dpkg-helper.so
> rc-dpkg-helper
> E: red-carpet: no-shlibs-control-file usr/lib/redcarpet/rc-dpkg-helper.so
> 
> Do I need an override for this, or am I doing something wrong?
> 

Policy was never changed, no consensus ever reached.  So you are not doing
anything wrong, I just can not get policy changed.  Please beg the policy group
to take care of this.