Package: debian-policy Version: 3.9.2.0 Severity: normal Currently, section 9.1.1 relaxes the FHS requirement that /lib64 and /usr/lib64 be used, but it doesn't prohibit installing files in that location. However, due to the way Debian handles this (with symlinks), bad things happen in terms of tracking files and conflicts if packages install files into /lib64 and /usr/lib64 and rely on these symlinks.
I think we should instead prohibit (must not) installing files into /lib64 and /usr/lib64 in packages with architecture amd64. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash debian-policy depends on no packages. debian-policy recommends no packages. Versions of packages debian-policy suggests: ii doc-base 0.10.1 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110611204953.17332.65894.report...@windlord.stanford.edu