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Re: Base package/shared library issues (was: Bug#2436 ...)



I'm cc'ing this back to debian-devel since it important.

> >Second, your package should include the symlink that ldconfig would
> >create for the shared libraries.
> 
> Looking at my system, I don't think I need to do anything for ncurses
> because I've got the soname as the library version.  Before I commit
> to this, though, I just wanted to confirm this.

You are right.  I had thought of this earlier but forgot to put it in
my message.  If the library name is the same as the soname (e.g.
libncurses.so.3.0), there is no symlink for ldconfig to create so this
part doesn't apply.

David
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