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diff --git a/dh_shlibdeps b/dh_shlibdeps
index 552687e4..ebba4746 100755
--- a/dh_shlibdeps
+++ b/dh_shlibdeps
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ may be used more than once to exclude more than one thing.
=item B<-l>I<directory>[:directory:directory:..]
-Before dpkg-shlibdeps is run, LD_LIBRARY_PATH will be set to the
+Before dpkg-shlibdeps is run, LD_LIBRARY_PATH will have added to it the
specified directory (or directories -- separate with colons). This is
useful for multi-binary packages where a library is built in one
package and another package contains binaries linked against said
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
if (@filelist) {
if ($dh{L_PARAMS}) {
my @paths=();
+ # Add to existing paths, if set.
+ push @paths, $ENV{'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'}
+ if exists $ENV{'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'}
foreach (split(/:/, $dh{L_PARAMS})) {
# Force the path absolute.
if (m:^/:) {