Bug#766811: spurious library links

[Marco d'Itri <md@xxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 06, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> AFAICS this is the code responsible for creating /lib/libfoo <->
> /usr/lib/libfoo symlinks (see include/buildmacros:79):
> 
> if [ "x$(shell readlink -f $(PKG_LIB_DIR))" != \
>     "x$(shell readlink -f $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR))" ]; then \
>        ../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).a 
> $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).a; \
>        ../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la 
> $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).la; \
>        ../$(INSTALL) -S $(PKG_ROOT_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).so 
> $(PKG_LIB_DIR)/$(LIBNAME).so; \
> fi

Right. Nathan, this code path is not used on Red Hat and SuSE, which 
already implemented a merged /usr, and it has always been wrong on 
Debian: I think it should just be removed from the upstream package.
Should I NMU?

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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