retitle 221982 Please put nss modules in /lib/nss/ (or something like that) severity 221982 wishlist reassign 221982 glibc thanks
Please keep myself in the Cc list. On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 02:03:33PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:10:43PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > glibc is misplacing libnss_* according to Andrew Suffield. > > > Disclaimer: I don't know that these files do, I trust this to the > > descretion of the glibc maintainers :). > > It's all good. Andrew's wrong in this particular case. Those files are > used to help glibc figure out things like how to read /etc/passwd and > such. These all are useful when /usr hasn't been mounted yet (and could > potentially be required for mounting it off of a remote NFS volume) Shouldn't it be in /lib/nss/ then? This is a good reason to not put it in /usr/lib/<package>/, but, I don't see why it shouldn't be in /lib/(nss|glibc-modules|whatever)/. These files are indeed no shared libraries, which makes it unnessasary (and against FHS if you're reading it in a certain way) to put them directly in /lib. Kernel modules, which aren't shared libs either, are also placed in a seperate directory. It is also consistent with how /usr/lib works, also there shared object files are within subdirs. If you, glibc maintainers, really think they should be in plain /lib, please reassign to debian-policy to have an exception there (I can image 'historical reasons' could be a reason). But if historical reasons don't prevent a move, it could be a target of sarge+1. --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl
