Manuel Prinz <man...@debian.org> writes: > Am Dienstag, den 23.03.2010, 19:30 +0100 schrieb Lucas Nussbaum: >> "Fixing" that my providing symlinks might cause subtle failures later, >> when the package is actually used and thinks that the libs are in some >> place while they aren't. > I do not see why it should. It's only relevant a compile time. The real > libs are in /usr/lib, where the linker will find them later, and rpath > is not involved. (The openmpi package has used that setup since > forever.) > > Anyway, I'm OK with patching the rules file as well. Time spent on > arguing can be better spent elsewhere. ;)
So, did you spend this time on doing fixes already? :-) It would be great to see at least a few patches for the breaking packages before the new defaults package is uploaded. Marc -- BOFH #226: A star wars satellite accidently blew up the WAN.
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