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Re: Question about libcdda_paranoia



On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:13:45PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote:
> I wonder why there is a symbolic link 
> 
> /usr/lib/libcdda_paranoia.so -> libcdda_paranoia.so.0.9.8
> 
> in package 'libcdparanoia0-dev'. Shouldn't that be in 'libcdparanoia0'?

No, plain .so links are only needed for build-time linking, and
therefore live in development packages. See:

  http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-dev

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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