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package-has-unnecessary-activation-of-ldconfig-trigger

The package activates the ldconfig trigger even though no shared libraries are installed in a directory controlled by the dynamic library loader.

Note this may be triggered by a bug in debhelper, that causes it to auto-generate an ldconfig trigger for packages that do not need it.

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The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.114.0 release tag in our Git repository.

You can find the detection logic for this version at commit d219a5a. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check libraries/shared/trigger/ldconfig.

Visibility: warning

The following 203 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 404 times (in any Lintian version).

We found 177 overrides. The tag performed 56% of the time.