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Bug#249122: libc6: ldconfig: Creates spurious libncurses.so.5 symlink



On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 17:38 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:

> When ldconfig is run with libncurses5 + libncurses5-dev installed, it
> creates a symlink /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 that points to libtermcap.so.
> The latter is a symlink to libncurses.so which is a symlink to
> /lib/libncurses.so.5.
> 
ldconfig is doing the right thing I think -- the bug is in
libncurses5-dev...

syndicate scott% objdump -p /usr/lib/libtermcap.so | grep SONAME
  SONAME      libncurses.so.5


The DT_SONAME field of that shared library (provided by the
libncurses5-dev package) is wrong.

Scott
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