Bug#83669: Shared libraries
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Henrique" == Henrique M Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes:
> Henrique> In other words, if this bug is deemed to be correct, we
> Henrique> will have to add hard-link support to dpkg and
> Henrique> .debs. Anything else will simply DOUBLE the already
>
> hard-link support will not help any more then sym-links currently do.
If one is going to have two copies of the library, one in the runtime and
other in the -dev package, they do. And doing this in the maintainer
scripts would be just too damn messy.
However, Herbert's proposal does not require two copies of the library at
all, and I wouldn't have even posted this had I read his mail before
replying ;)
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Henrique Holschuh
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