Package: packaging-manual Version: 3.1.1.1 Severity: normal Currently section 12 (shared libraries) of the packaging manual states:
[.....] Futhermore, and _this is very important_, the library must be placed before the symlink pointing to it in the `.deb' file. This is so that by the time `dpkg' comes to install the symlink (overwriting the previous symlink pointing at an older version of the library) the new shared library is already in place. Currently the way to ensure the ordering is done properly is to install the library in the appropriate `debian/tmp/.../lib' directory before creating the symlink, by putting the commands in the `debian/rules' in the appropriate order. Whether this has been done correctly can be checked by performing an `ls -f'. This text is not always correct, since it highly depends on the behaviour of the filesystem. Some filesystems (such as reisefs) will reorder the files so it doesn't matter in what order you create them. To support this Adam Heath wrote a path for dpkg-deb that will make dpkg itself reorder files when creating a package. That patch will be in dpkg 1.6.5. The packaging manual should be updated to reflect this. Wichert. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux lightning 2.2.14pre11 #1 Tue Dec 7 20:26:22 CET 1999 i586 unknown
