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Re: Removing Packages in Slink for Debian 2.1



>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Meskes <meskes@usa.net> writes:

    Michael> On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:19:30PM -0400, Brian White
    Michael> wrote:

    Brian> libmagick4-dev 19332 libmagick:
    Brian> ldconfig-symlink-before-shlib-in-deb LI#67 [217]
    Brian> (scott@debian.org (Scott K. Ellis))

    Michael> I wish I would understand a message like that. :-)

It's pretty simple. The packaging manual says that for dpkg to do its
job correctly w.r.t. shared libraries and symlinks, you *must* install
the .so.1.2.3 library in debian/tmp/ before you make the symlink from
the .so.1 -> .so.1.2.3 . 

This is so dpkg can emulate what ldconfig does.

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