Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.39.1
Severity: normal
In the description of tag postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig it is
stated that "[t]he postinst script calls ldconfig […]". I ran into a
case where ldconfig is actually called in the triggers script and the
above tag is issued. It took me a while to figure out where the
problem came from.
Could you please update the description of the tag, stating something
like this:
The postinst or the triggers script calls ldconfig even though no
shared libraries are installed in a directory controlled by the
dynamic library loader.
By the way, it would be also good to change the tag itself to
something like "postinst-or-triggers-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig".
Thanks,
Rafael Laboissière
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ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.34-1
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ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1
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ii man-db 2.7.5-1
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ii perl [libdigest-sha-perl] 5.20.2-6
ii t1utils 1.38-4
ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1
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pn binutils-multiarch <none>
ii dpkg-dev 1.18.3
ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.71-2
ii libtext-template-perl 1.46-1
ii libyaml-perl 1.15-1
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