[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#612398: Bug#612398: ia32-libs: Please add libacl.so symlink

[Thijs Kinkhorst]

Hi Philipp,

On Tue, February 8, 2011 11:11, Philipp Kern wrote:
> Package: ia32-libs
> Version: 20110117
> Severity: normal
>
> IBM's proprietary Tivoli Storage Manager backup client has ACL support
> when
> running on Linux.  However it's only available if libacl.so can be
> dlopen()ed.
> As it's still a 32bit product it runs with ia32-libs.  Could you add a
> libacl.so -> libacl.so.1.1.0 symlink, please?  That would allow us to drop
> the symlinking in postinst, which could go wrong upon purge when another
> package needs to resort to the same kludge.

Yes, we run TSM with ia32-libs aswell and it works well for us. However I
don't know what 'ACL support' means in this context: does it mean the
backup will include filesystem acl metadata which can later be restored?
Or is it something different?

I assume you are symlinking this in the postinst of some tivsm Debian
packages. Are those available somewhere? I ask because we have in house
packages so I would be interested in comparing them.

As for the symlink, this may be possible I'm not sure how much effort
there will be put for wheezy for ia32-libs, given multiarch and all.

Cheers,
Thijs