Severity set to `important' from `grave'
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From: "Francesco P. Lovergine"
To: Bastian Blank , 42229@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#422293: closed by Francesco Paolo Lovergine (Bug#422293: fixed in aolserver4 4.5.0-5)
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severity 42229 important
thanks
On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 12:41:18AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> reopen 422293
> thanks
>
> On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 04:04:22PM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > * Now installs a new file libaolserver4.conf into /etc/ld.so.conf.d to add the ld.so path for its libraries.
>
> /etc/ld.so.conf.d is not for private libs. Use rpath.
>
I'm not persuaded this is one of the case for which rpath is acceptable.
There are already other packages that do the same for their internal packages to avoid using rpath,
I think for exactly the same reason I'm going to explain:
those aolsrv libraries (note that they are also not versioned by upstream unfortunately) are used
by other source packages and potentially could be also used by users who
would compile their own modules. So, this is one of the deprecated use of rpath.
Also, I would avoid to pollute /usr/lib with those (and other per-module shlibs) aolserver4 related
shlibs without versions and sonames, so I moved all stuff under
/usr/lib/aolserver4. I hope upstreams will finally move
to a more sane practice about that, but currently this is not the case.
I'm reducing severity because this is not an explicit policy issue AFAIK.
The only reference I know about those questions is the unofficial
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html#rpath
which is indeed unofficially and not generally accepted by all in all
its parts.
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Francesco P. Lovergine