Comment 7 for bug 877872

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 05:28:04PM -0000, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> See thread starting on
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/p11-glue/2011-October/000075.html
> For the time being the problem of diverging module path seems to be
> limited to gnome-keyring. i.e. if gnome-keyring moved the module the
> problem would be solved. As a workaround it might make sense to points
> p11-kit to to the old directory until that happens.

What about other consumers of pkcs11 modules? This is the point: if
/usr/lib/pkcs11 is an interface shared by multiple consumers of these
modules (meaning: if p11-kit is not the only thing which uses
gnome-keyring-module), then coordinating between gnome-keyring-module and
p11-kit is not sufficient to ensure a smooth upgrade. gnome-keyring-module
should be kept in /usr/lib/pkcs11 until *all* of the consumers have been
updated to know about the multiarch path, which means all of them should
look in both paths on at least a transitional basis.

Maybe upstream doesn't want that patch, but I think it's the right thing for
Debian and Ubuntu to do during the transition.

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