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Re: [pcp] Bug#715104: Broken library symlink detected in libpcp-trace2-d

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Subject: Re: [pcp] Bug#715104: Broken library symlink detected in libpcp-trace2-dev
From: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 16:20:33 +1000
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On 06/07/13 15:01, David Steele wrote:
Package: libpcp-trace2-dev
Version: 3.8.0
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Usertags: piuparts, broken-symlink, broken-symlink-shared-library


David, I am a little confused by this.

In the Debian packaging for PCP we simply follow the template from libc, namely

$ dpkg -S /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so
libc6:i386: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
libc6-dev:i386: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so

compared to

$ dpkg -S /usr/lib/libpcp_trace.so*
libpcp-trace2-dev: /usr/lib/libpcp_trace.so
libpcp-trace2: /usr/lib/libpcp_trace.so.2

so is the issue you've raised simply the missing dependency to prevent libpcp-trace2-dev being installed without libpcp-trace2 being installed?

I suspect this is the case because in practice no one is going to install libpcp-trace2-dev without installing libpcp-trace2 which is why we've never had a problem report about this in the past.

Cheers, Ken.




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