On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:55:11AM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 07-Mar-2001 Ben Collins wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 06:14:08PM +0100, Othmar Pasteka wrote: > >> hi, > >> > >> while packaging modlogan i have to use overrides because modlogan > >> uses shared objects for its plugin system which are not shared > >> libs. but since there has to be a shlibs file for shared objects > >> under /usr/lib i get lots of lintian errors, i.e. policy > >> violations. > > > > Plugins should not go in /usr/lib/., but should go in a subdirectory of > > /usr/lib. > > > > For example, PAM uses /lib/security/ and apache uses /usr/lib/apache/ > > > > Do that, and lintian shouldn't complain. The problem here is that you > > are leaving these modules/plugins out at the will of the dynamic linker. > > Leaving them in /usr/lib/ makes ldconfig parse them, fills the > > ld.so.cache with useless libs, and thus adds overhead to the system's > > dynamic loader. > > > > lintian WILL complains about any lib it finds, period. No has codified policy > to make lintian behave differently. I have asked on several occasions for > someone to put in writing what you say above and to no avail.
IMO, lintian should take this in two steps. One, anything not in /lib or /usr/lib, that is a DSO, better be a module or plugin. The check for this is something that adds the file to /etc/ld.so.conf, in which case (and this may be hard to check as-is), the package is setting up a subdir (a la /usr/i486-linux/lib or /usr/X11R6/lib) where DSO's will live, and will be recognized by ldconfig/ld.so. You're right, this needs to be in policy, and a decent interface for making changes to ld.so.conf needs to be added (maybe I can do that in libc6) so that packages can call that script, and lintian can check for it. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
