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Bug#83669: dynamic creation of libx.so.n



On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 05:06:29PM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> 
> 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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