Re: *.so symlinks in shared lib package

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

Michael Wild <themiwi@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Do *.so development symlinks in a shared-library package constitute a
> policy violation? 8.1 Doesn't forbid them in the library package and 8.4
> only says the "should" be in the -dev package.

>From Policy 8.2:

    If your package contains files whose names do not change with each
    change in the library shared object version, you must not put them
    in the shared library package.

So most likely you don't want development symlinks in the library
package.

Ansgar