Broken symlinks in development packages?

[pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu (Ben Pfaff)]

Is there a good reason so many -dev packages contain broken symlinks
in /usr/lib?

blp:/raid/home/blp$ for d in /usr/lib/*.so; do if echo `file $d` | \
grep -q broken; then dpkg -S $d; fi; done
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.so
e2fsprogs: /usr/lib/libcom_err.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so
ncurses3.4-dev: /usr/lib/libcurses.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libdb.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libdl.so
e2fsprogs: /usr/lib/libe2p.so
e2fsprogs: /usr/lib/libext2fs.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libm.so
ncurses3.4-dev: /usr/lib/libncurses.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnsl.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnss_compat.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnss_db.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnss_dns.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnss_files.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnss_nis.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libpthread.so
libreadlineg2-dev: /usr/lib/libreadline.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libresolv.so
e2fsprogs: /usr/lib/libss.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libutil.so
e2fsprogs: /usr/lib/libuuid.so
-- 
Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> <blp@gnu.org> <pfaffben@debian.org>


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