On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 19:55:43 +0200, Antonin Kral wrote: > Hi Kurt, > > thank you for the report. Could you please give my some pointers to > learn more details, how this is expected to be harmful? > > I have seen other report of yours at > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=588554 > > but I was unable to find something solid about the issue. It looks like, > that Debian policy permits lib as well as lib64. On the other hand, I > have found some problem with dpkg and directory handling in lib. There > is the generic rule, that all libs in debian are in lib, but it seems to > me that > > bo...@bobek-a0:~$ ls /usr/lib64 | wc -l > 3540 > > is pretty high number to be just accident. > > Thank you, I really appreciate your time, > $ ls -ld /usr/lib64 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 27 2008 /usr/lib64 -> lib
/usr/lib64 is not a directory, so packages aren't supposed to ship it as one. Cheers, Julien
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