lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library
A -dev package is supposed to install an unversioned
symbolic link that references the shared library by name.
There is no requirement that the names are otherwise related.
The dynamic linker uses the link to load the executable into memory.
In most cases, the symbolic link should be in the same folder as the library itself.
A major exception are libraries installed under /lib. In those cases,
the links should go into the corresponding folders under /usr.
For a library installed as /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXYZ.so.V, a good link
would be /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXYZ.so.
This tag is emitted for the library package and not for the -dev package.
That is because Lintian looks for links after locating the library. The links can be
in any of several installables, but there is only one library for each set of links
pointing to it.
For more information please consult:
- debian-policy 8.4 Bug#963099
The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163.
That is the most recent version we know about.
We use semantic versions.
The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the
2.114.0
release tag in our Git
repository.
You can find the detection logic for this version at commit 3410a22. For merge requests, please use the latest version in the Lintian check libraries/shared/links.
Visibility: warning
- dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink