[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#978585: Bug#978585: libcryptsetup-dev: wrong libdir variable in libcryptsetup.pc

[Luca Boccassi]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 at 00:43, Guilhem Moulin <guilhem at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Luca,
>
> On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 21:56:25 +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> > The problem is that the ${libdir} variable in the pkg-config file is
> > not adjusted accordingly, so the wrong -L flags are exposed.
> > Given it's a standard path this is not usually an issue when building
> > reverse dependencies, but pkg-config can be used in more occasions
> > than that. For example, the systemd integration test suite uses it to
> > check where libraries are installed in a distro-agnostic way.
>
> Thanks for the poke!  I'm not specially fond of that breakout link .so
> /usr/lib/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/libcryptsetup.so → /lib/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/…
> (that also causes lintian to spew a ‘breakout-link’ warning).  I'm also
> not so fond of that sed rule :-P  Another way to fix the issue you
> reported is to move libcryptsetup.so to /lib/$DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH/… where
> the versioned link lives.  Does ec9b7931 help?  (That now causes lintian
> to spew a ‘lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library’, but I'll silence
> it following the reasoning from #843932.)

Hi,

That works just fine for me yes, thank you! I'll close the MR. Feel
free to mark this as closed with the next upload.

Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi