[Pkg-db-devel] Bug#553002: libdb4.5: postinst-must-call-ldconfig usr/lib/libdb-4.5.so by the dynamic library loader. Therefore, the package must call "ldconfig" in its postinst script.

[Manoj Srivastava]

Package: libdb4.5
Version: 4.5.20-13
Severity: serious
Justification: The package installs shared libraries in a directory controlled
User: lintian-maint at debian.org
Usertags: postinst-must-call-ldconfig

Refer to Debian Policy Manual section 8.1.1 (ldconfig) for details. 

,----[ 8.1.1 ldconfig ]
| Any package installing shared libraries in one of the default library
| directories of the dynamic linker (which are currently /usr/lib and /lib) or a
| directory that is listed in /etc/ld.so.conf[47] must use ldconfig to update the
| shared library system.
| 
| The package maintainer scripts must only call ldconfig under these circumstances:
| 
|  * When the postinst script is run with a first argument of configure, the
|    script must call ldconfig, and may optionally invoke ldconfig at other times.
|  * When the postrm script is run with a first argument of remove, the script
|    should call ldconfig.
`----

        manoj


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.4-anzu-2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages libdb4.5 depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.10.1-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries

libdb4.5 recommends no packages.

libdb4.5 suggests no packages.

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