Comment 17 for bug 6908

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 07:03:14 +0200
From: Matthias Klose <email address hidden>
To: Mark Howard <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: #253059 libffi2-dev: wrong libdir in /usr/lib/libffi.la

Mark Howard writes:
> Matthias,
>
> When you reassign, merge, change severity of bug reports, please send an
> explanatory message. In most cases, this means CC'ing your message to
> the bug.

well, I renamed the report.

> >From the BTS, I managed to find your original message which made the
> changes. This had the comment:
> > the path is correct. any idea, why these two packages don't get the
> > dependency.
>
> Could you please explain that further.
>
> The package changed from having libdir='/usr/lib' to having libdir='/usr/lib/.'
>
> Why?
> This change has clearly broken other packages, so please consider that
> your package may be in error rather than the other packages.
>
> I am no expert in these matters, but libdir='/usr/lib/' seems to make
> more sense.

/usr/lib/. and /usr/lib are both valid path names, even if you append
to it. I'll change that with the next upload, but IMO there is no
requirement that path names in these files have to be normalized.

 Matthias