Bug#553109: guile-gnutls: postinst-must-call-ldconfig /usr/lib/libguile-gnutls-v-1.so.0.0.0 by the dynamic library loader. Therefore, the package must call "ldconfig" in its postinst script.

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2009-10-29 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29 2009, Andreas Metzler wrote:


> > These are not proper shared libraries but are dlopened bindings for
> > guile, which takes them outside the scope of the abovementioned part of
> > policy.

>         Then should they not be in a private path?

This seems to be a project for guile-1.9. As Simon already noted using
/usr/lib/ is current practice.

>  As long as they are
>  in the public library directories, you are still under the policy
>  directive, as far as I can see.

Why? Shouldn't intent matter more than than binary format? Does
running ldconfig provide any benefit?
cu andreas
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