The libfaketime LD_PRELOAD hack would be really useful to me for writing a test suite for some time-sensitive code. However, packaging it as a library seems a little bit weird. I'm tempted to package it instead as a simple binary package called "faketime", by analogy with fakeroot and fakechroot.
I'd write (and provide upstream, if they want it) a simple
/usr/bin/faketime wrapper script and man page if i went this route.
Any thoughts on the right thing to do? It seems a little silly to
worry about the nuances of library packaging when this is clearly not
used as a typical library would be used. (e.g. calling ldconfig in
post{inst,rm} makes no sense).
OTOH, upstream does explicitly call the package libfaketime.
I welcome suggestions.
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