Bug#630174: debian-policy: forbid installation into /lib64

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.2.0
Severity: normal

Currently, section 9.1.1 relaxes the FHS requirement that /lib64 and
/usr/lib64 be used, but it doesn't prohibit installing files in that
location. However, due to the way Debian handles this (with symlinks),
bad things happen in terms of tracking files and conflicts if packages
install files into /lib64 and /usr/lib64 and rely on these symlinks.

I think we should instead prohibit (must not) installing files into
/lib64 and /usr/lib64 in packages with architecture amd64.

Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

debian-policy depends on no packages.

debian-policy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii doc-base 0.10.1 utilities to manage online documen




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