Re: Broken symlinks in development packages?
Scott Ellis wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > Carey Evans wrote:
> > >
> > > It's my understanding this happens if the versions of the -dev package
> > > and the main package don't match.
> >
> > Indeed, and that's why you should put the .so link in the lib package
> > and not the dev package.
>
> The .so link is in the -dev package because it is only used by the
> compiler. If you don't have the -dev package installed, you can't link
> with the library. It is policy and perfectly correct.
Except if you do this, everytime a new lib release comes out, you'll have to
upgrade your -dev package even if the only change there is the .so link. This
is stupid IMHO.
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