libX11-6: missing links

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #297315 http://bugs.debian.org/297315

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:23:23 +0000
From: michael <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: libX11-6: missing links

Package: libX11-6
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10
Severity: grave
Tags: patch
Justification: renders package unusable

On my system I had to put these symbolic links
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 28 14:47 libXpm.so -> libXpm.so.4
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 28 13:48 libXext.so -> libXext.so.6
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 28 12:59 libX11.so -> libX11.so.6
in order for `ld` to accept -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXpm -lXext -lX11

Thanks, Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages libX11-6 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii xfree86-common 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System (XFree86) infrastr
ii xlibs-data 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System client data

-- no debconf information

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:13:16 +0100
From: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
To: michael <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#297315: libX11-6: missing links

On 28/02/2005-17:06, michael wrote:

> Package: libX11-6
> Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10
> Severity: grave
> Tags: patch
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> On my system I had to put these symbolic links
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 28 14:47 libXpm.so -> libXpm.so.4
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 28 13:48 libXext.so -> libXext.so.6
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 28 12:59 libX11.so -> libX11.so.6
> in order for `ld` to accept -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXpm -lXext -lX11
>
Hi,

this is not a bug, the .so symlinks are provided by the -dev packages
(libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxpm-dev), as they are not needed at
runtime. They are not, and should not be, included in the library
packages themselves.
Closing this spurious bug report.

Regards,
Julien

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 19:24:55 +0100
From: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
To: michael bane <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#297315: libX11-6: missing links

michael, you should copy your replies to the bug report, so that other
peoples can read them. (I did this for this one)

On 28/02/2005-17:57, michael bane wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 17:13 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On 28/02/2005-17:06, michael wrote:
> >
> > > Package: libX11-6
> > > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10
> > > Severity: grave
> > > Tags: patch
> > > Justification: renders package unusable
> > >
> > > On my system I had to put these symbolic links
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 28 14:47 libXpm.so -> libXpm.so.4
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Feb 28 13:48 libXext.so -> libXext.so.6
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 28 12:59 libX11.so -> libX11.so.6
> > > in order for `ld` to accept -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lXpm -lXext -lX11
> > >
> > Hi,
> >
> > this is not a bug, the .so symlinks are provided by the -dev packages
> > (libx11-dev, libxext-dev, libxpm-dev), as they are not needed at
> > runtime. They are not, and should not be, included in the library
> > packages themselves.
> > Closing this spurious bug report.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Julien
>
> Julien - hope you don't mind a quick "thanks for prompt reply"! I didn't
> realise the above so is it worth amending the libX11 and libX11-dev doc
> (package info) to say if you require to link against X11 etc you need
> the -dev package too?
>
> Cheers, Michael
>
Personally, I think it's fairly obvious you need the devel package when
you want to use a library for development, but as I'm not the package
maintainer, I'm not the one you should try to convince :)

Regards,
Julien

PEBKAC

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Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:12:18 -0500
From: Branden Robinson <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: severity of 297315 is normal, tagging 297315 ...

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.8.10
severity 297315 normal
tags 297315 + wontfix
retitle 297315 libx11-6: doesn't ship the .so symlink that libx11-dev ships

Marked as WONTFIX in Debian in March 2005