Mike Coleman writes: > Yes, it is still true that these links are required. Packages should > create them. > > The best way is for the package to create the link libfoo.so to > libfoo.so.x rather than to libfoo.so.x.y - this will involve less > mucking about when then library version changes. Maybe it would be nice to have such a choice be consitent across all packages, which is not the case actually... Yves.