How to package a library only used with LD_PRELOAD?

[Linus Vanas <linus@vanas.fi>]

Dear mentors,

I've been working on packaging libstrangle:
https://salsa.debian.org/Huitsi/libstrangle

The library is only meant to be used with LD_PRELOAD and not linked with 
at build-time, but an upstream script assumes the lib is in the ld 
search path. To my understanding of the policy, this would mean having 
to comply with "8. Shared libraries" despite the library really not 
being suited for it. I'd rather patch the script than make the library 
comply with shared library policy but I'm unsure how to do that in a 
multiarch-compatible way.

Am I reading the situation correctly and if so, how should I solve it?

Thanks in advance,
Linus Vanas