Bug#83669: dynamic creation of libx.so.n
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:06:29PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
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> Maybe so, but then Debian packages shouldn't include the symlink in
> the runtime library package.
It doesn't need to. Just call ldconfig to make the symlink.
> Also, who is responsible for deleting the symlink when it is no longer
> required? Does ldconfig do that?
ldconfig doesn't. But it isn't that hard to remove dangling symlinks
in those directories, be it by ldconfig or some other utility.
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