On 23-Mar-2001 Bradley Bell wrote: > I'd like to package ximian's red-carpet, which uses .so files as plugins. > > I thought it was decided a few months ago that .so files which are in > directories not listed in ld.so.conf would be treated as plugins, and not as > normal shared libraries, but Lintian still gives me these errors: > > E: red-carpet: ldconfig-symlink-missing-for-shlib > usr/lib/redcarpet/rc-dpkg-helper usr/lib/redcarpet/rc-dpkg-helper.so > rc-dpkg-helper > E: red-carpet: no-shlibs-control-file usr/lib/redcarpet/rc-dpkg-helper.so > > Do I need an override for this, or am I doing something wrong? >
Policy was never changed, no consensus ever reached. So you are not doing anything wrong, I just can not get policy changed. Please beg the policy group to take care of this.
