Comment 4 for bug 13362

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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:13:16 +0100
From: Julien Cristau <email address hidden>
To: michael <email address hidden>,
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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