diff -u pcre3-7.4/debian/libpcre3.install pcre3-7.4/debian/libpcre3.install
--- pcre3-7.4/debian/libpcre3.install
+++ pcre3-7.4/debian/libpcre3.install
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-debian/tmp/usr/lib/libpcre.so.*
+debian/tmp/usr/lib/libpcre.so.* lib
 debian/tmp/usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.*
 debian/tmp/usr/bin/pcretest
 debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1/pcretest.1
diff -u pcre3-7.4/debian/rules pcre3-7.4/debian/rules
--- pcre3-7.4/debian/rules
+++ pcre3-7.4/debian/rules
@@ -100,11 +100,11 @@
 	dh_strip -a --dbg-package=libpcre3-dbg
 	dh_compress -a
 	dh_fixperms -a
-	dh_makeshlibs -plibpcre3 --add-udeb="libpcre3-udeb" -V 'libpcre3 (>= 7.4)'
+	dh_makeshlibs -plibpcre3 --add-udeb="libpcre3-udeb" -V 'libpcre3 (>= 7.4-1ubuntu3)'
 	dh_makeshlibs -plibpcrecpp0 -V 'libpcrecpp0'
 	dh_installdeb -a
 #	dh_perl -a
-	dh_shlibdeps -a -ldebian/libpcre3/usr/lib
+	dh_shlibdeps -a -ldebian/libpcre3/lib:debian/libpcre3/usr/lib
 	dh_gencontrol -a
 	dh_md5sums -a
 	dh_builddeb -a
diff -u pcre3-7.4/debian/changelog pcre3-7.4/debian/changelog
--- pcre3-7.4/debian/changelog
+++ pcre3-7.4/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,17 @@
+pcre3 (7.4-1ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low
+
+  * Move libpcre3 to /lib (LP: #15051)
+    - debian/dirs: add "lib"
+    - debian/libpcre3.install, debian/libpcre3-udeb.install:
+      - Move libpcre3.so.* to /lib
+    - debian/rules:
+      - bump version in dh_makeshlibs call to ">= 7.4-1ubuntu3"
+      - include /lib in dh_shlibdeps call
+    - debian/libpcre3-dev.links:
+      - Create symlink in /usr/lib/libpcre.so to /lib/libpcre.so.3
+
+ -- Daniel Hahler <ubuntu@thequod.de>  Sat, 16 Feb 2008 19:52:30 +0100
+
 pcre3 (7.4-1ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low
 
   * SECURITY UPDATE: stack overflow when handling long UTF8 strings.
diff -u pcre3-7.4/debian/dirs pcre3-7.4/debian/dirs
--- pcre3-7.4/debian/dirs
+++ pcre3-7.4/debian/dirs
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+lib
 usr/bin
 usr/sbin
diff -u pcre3-7.4/debian/libpcre3-udeb.install pcre3-7.4/debian/libpcre3-udeb.install
--- pcre3-7.4/debian/libpcre3-udeb.install
+++ pcre3-7.4/debian/libpcre3-udeb.install
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-debian/tmp/usr/lib/libpcre.so.*
+debian/tmp/usr/lib/libpcre.so.* lib
 debian/tmp/usr/lib/libpcreposix.so.*
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- pcre3-7.4.orig/debian/libpcre3-dev.links
+++ pcre3-7.4/debian/libpcre3-dev.links
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+lib/libpcre.so.3 usr/lib/libpcre.so