Hi! On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 15:25:07 -0800, Lei Zhang wrote: > Package: libbz2-dev > Version: 1.0.5-3 > Severity: normal
> On both Debian and Ubuntu, /usr/lib/libbz2.so currently links to > /lib/libbz2.so.1.0. As a result, any program that links against -lbz2 > on a Debian machine needs libbz2.so.1.0. This makes it hard to build > a binary that works on RPM distributions, which do not provide > libbz2.so.1.0. The reason the libbz2.so symlink points to libbz2.so.1.0 is because that's the SONAME of the shared library. Also the symlink only tells ld which file to use when linking, but it's the SONAME which gets recorded as the dependency information in the linked binary (the NEEDED values, as seen with “objdump -p” for example). So doing what you request would not change much. But changing the SONAME would, but then I think that'd be wrong, as it would diverge from the SONAME chosen by upstream for the library (as can be seen in Makefile-libbz2_so which Debian is following in the patched Makefile). So I think the bug here is in those rpm based distributions, for diverging from upstream. I'll let the mainatiners close the bug if they agree. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
