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Re: Lintian warnings on A+ package



"Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@attbi.com> writes:

> > 3) "non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink /usr/lib/libMSGUI.so.0.0.0
> > /usr/lib/libMSGUI.so" (warning) This package is an interpreter, and the
> > shared
> > libraries are for running that, NOT to be linked against, so I think this is
> > benign and I can ignore them.  Yes or no?
> 
> libfoo.so is ONLY used to link a program with, otherwise the libfoo.so.X.X is
> used.  So you should not ship a .so except in a -dev package.

In addition, shared objects that are not intended for general use
(i.e. are not really "shared libraries") should not go into /usr/lib,
but some subdirectory (e.g. /usr/lib/aplus). For example, mozilla-*
uses /usr/lib/mozilla/components/. A soname is also not mandatory in
this case.

-- 
Robbe

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