Re: Links for Libraries

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

David Engel writes ("Re: Links for Libraries"):
...
> Stephen is right.  The .so symlink should point to .so.x.y.  This is
> because the .so symlink, which is provided in the -dev packages, is
> used for linking by ld and must point to the specific library which
> matches the header files in the -dev package.  If the .so symlink
> points to the .so.x symlink, as Ian suggests, the .so symlink and
> header files can get out of sync if the user installs a newer library,
> obtained from somewhere else, and runs ldconfig.

Right.  I'll try to make sure that the new policy manual explains
this.

Ian.