"David Engel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> This issue has come up several times but nobody has ever fixed the
> Debian documentation.  ldconfig should (must if the library is not
> in /lib or /usr/lib) always be called in the postinst script.

Only iff "$1" is configure; you do *not* want to run ldconfig if the
postinst is called as abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure, or
you can end up with all kinds of nastiness with .dpkg-tmp files as .so
links and in ld.so's cache and other fun stuff[1].

[1] Hi Ben.

-- 
James


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