[Bug 1310765] Re: libarchive.so is not symlinked

[Andreas Henriksson]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 02:25:13PM -0000, Dustin Oprea wrote:
> What makes you think that I need development files?

The topic of the bug report made me think that.
You said: "libarchive.so is not symlinked"

This development file is shipped in the development package!

Also you said:
"In Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, there is a libarchive.so.12 and libarchive.so.13, respectively. However, there is no libarchive.so . This makes it hard to build against."

Which I understand as you trying to do development, without having development
files for libarchive installed.

> I just need the library.

And you already stated that you have it installed. So what's the
problem?

> If I have to install the development package to get the library,
> then what's the point of the libarchive<x> package?

Installing the development files are optional and only needed when you
want to build things against a particular library.
The -dev package (including header files, .so symlink, etc) is needed
at *build* time.

The libarchive13 package contains the files needed at *runtime* for
programs dynamically linked to Shared Object ABI version 13 of libarchive.

Regards,
Andreas Henriksson


** Changed in: libarchive (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  libarchive.so is not symlinked

Status in “libarchive” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04, there is a libarchive.so.12 and
  libarchive.so.13, respectively. However, there is no libarchive.so .
  This makes it hard to build against.

  Can you add this?

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