Bug#614345: pu: package libpng/1.2.44-2
On 2011-02-27 20:30 +0100, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:03:12PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> (Incidentally, for some reason my system seems to still have a
>> /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0, unknown to dpkg. Not sure where that comes
>> from.)
>
> That seems to be courtesy of ldconfig. If you have libpng-dev installed,
> ldconfig finds .so files in the directory with an soname of 'libpng12.so.0',
> doesn't find a file of that name in the directory, so creates a symlink...
> even though this was already available in /lib.
>
> I'd say this is misbehavior on the part of ldconfig since there's no need
> for this symlink and no way to get around its creation AFAICS.
Yes, this is bug #249122.
Cheers,
Sven
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