Andreas Beckmann <[email protected]> writes: > Stanislav Maslovski wrote:
>> A quick investigation showed that the previos versions shipped a >> symlink (or it was somehow autogenerated) /usr/lib/libvdpau_nvidia.so that >> was pointing to the backend library. I found that after the upgrade >> this symlink was broken (it was still pointing to the old library in >> /usr/lib that was not there anymore). I tried running ldconf but that > If the symlink was not removed it was somehow autogenerated ... so we > need to cleanup this in postinst ... ldconfig automatically generates those symlinks, but the package needs to own the symlink for it to be removed automatically by dpkg, I believe. This is why all the bit in Policy about how the package must contain the symlink *and* call ldconfig properly. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
