reassign 426720 beagle
stop

        Hi,

On Wed, May 30, 2007, Damodharan R wrote:
> The libgalago3 package does not create a symlink libgalago.so. This
> caused the programs which dynamically link to this library to fail.
> Beagle search used to fail whenever I click on IM conversations.

 The .so symlink is in the -dev package.  It would be against Debian
 policy to provide it with the library, and it's not what you want.

 You want to fix beagle to *build* against the -dev package of galago,
 to record the SONAME of the library and load the library with the
 full path (including SONAME: libgalago.so.3); this means that beagle
 will depend on known version of libgalago's ABI, and not the current
 one.  Loading "libgalago.so" expects galago's ABI to never break, which
 is a nice wish.

   Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier

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