> Yes, it is discussed in the Debian Packaging Manual, section 12. > See: > /usr/doc/dpkg/packaging.html/ch-sharedlibs.html > > You should just go ahead and file bugs against packages which don't > include the .so link as part of the package.
If I understand this correctly, there is no need to use ldconfig in the postinst script, correct? ie. A quick survey of the packages on my system: $ grep 'ldconfig' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*|wc -l 112 And I've only got around 400 packages installed (and not too many libraries) - so I think we've got a serious problem. We ought not to release 2.0 in this state. The shared library thing has always confused me a bit because I tend to pick these things up by example - but if everybody's doing it wrong... Should I file bug reports? What severity? Or am I unduly alarmed? Cheers, - Jim
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