Bug#513065: Acknowledgement (libz.so: System Profiler and Benchmark calls libz.so but ln is libz.s0.1)

[George Kirkham]

The "System Profiler and  Benchmark" is a program which provides 
information about the installation of Debian and the PC on which it is 
run.  When I run "System Profiler and  Benchmark" and generate a report 
and save this report, an error message is displayed "Warning Cannot load 
ZLIb: /user/lib/libz.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or 
directory".

Searching the internet, I have found reports of other applications which 
depend on libz.so, one of these reports suggested copying the link 
"/user/lib/libz.so.1" and renaming the copied link to "/user/lib/libz.so".

I did this and then the "System Profiler and  Benchmark" program was 
able to save the report without error.  I suggest that for backward 
compatibility not only the link "/user/lib/libz.so.1" should exist but 
also a link "/user/lib/libz.so", if not then all programs (eg "System 
Profiler and  Benchmark") which reference "/user/lib/libz.so" should be 
modified to reference "/user/lib/libz.so.1"


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