On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:29:21AM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote: > El jue, 01-12-2005 a las 15:38 -0800, Steve Langasek escribió: > [...]
> > I've also had to make one further tweak to debian/rules, because > > /usr/lib/libpt.so.1 and /usr/lib/libpt.so.1.8 were being installed into the > > lib package again instead of the -dev package, where there's no reason to > > install them at all. So now they're really gone. > About this, I am sure we were doing that for a reason, but I cannot > remember which one it was right now. Perhaps Kilian has a better memory > than me. It's much more likely that this was done without fully thinking out how those files will be used. When linking, only the .so file is used; at runtime, only the file which matches the SONAME that was linked against is used. If these files are symlinks, then any files needed to resolve these links to real files must *also* be included in the package. But other symlinks *to* these files serve no purpose. so if the soname was libpt.so.1, you would need libpt.so.1 -> libpt.so.1.8.7 libpt.so.1.8.7 in the lib package. If it was libpt.so.1.8, you would need libpt.so.1.8 -> libpt.so.1.8.7 libpt.so.1.8.7 But since libpt.so.1.8.7 is the soname, and that file isn't a symlink, everything else except the .so link is extraneous. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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