Aurelien Jarno <aure...@debian.org> writes: > The section 8.4, Development files, mentions that the development > package should contain a symlink for the associated shared library > without a version number. In practice a linker script could be used > instead, this is for instance the case of libncurses.so, libncursesw.so, > libc.so, and also libm.so for architectures which support the vector > math library.
> Here is a proposal to update the existing paragraph: > The development package should contain either a symlink or a linker > script for the associated shared library without a version number. For > example, the libgdbm-dev package should include a symlink from > /usr/lib/libgdbm.so to libgdbm.so.3.0.0, or a linker script that > achieves the same effect. This symlink or linker script is needed by > the linker (ld) when compiling packages, as it will only look for > libgdbm.so when compiling dynamically. Good catch, and that change looks good to me. Seconded. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
