From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:32:36 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a6324250cd29846505af863774e819ed2e17f0e7;p=debian%2Fdebian-policy.git

Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf

Remove the Policy permission for packages to install libraries in a
subdirectory and add that directory to /etc/ld.so.conf.
---

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 43cf4d6..d2b8c66 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -7010,17 +7010,6 @@ strip --strip-unneeded <var>your-lib</var>
 	  </footnote>
 	</p>
 
-	<p>
-	  Packages containing shared libraries that may be linked to
-	  by other packages' binaries, but which for some
-	  <em>compelling</em> reason can not be installed in
-	  <file>/usr/lib</file> directory, may install the shared library
-	  files in subdirectories of the <file>/usr/lib</file> directory,
-	  in which case they should arrange to add that directory in
-	  <file>/etc/ld.so.conf</file> in the package's post-installation
-	  script, and remove it in the package's post-removal script.
-	</p>
-
 	<p>
 	  An ever increasing number of packages are using
 	  <prgn>libtool</prgn> to do their linking.  The latest GNU