[Bug 1337898] Re: Invalid symlinks for libungif.so and libungif.a

[Robie Basak]

Is there any actual impact to Trusty users, please? Or is this just
tidying up some dangling symlinks for the sake of it?

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Title:
  Invalid symlinks for libungif.so and libungif.a

Status in giflib package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in giflib source package in Trusty:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Impact
  ======
  libgif-dev in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS depends on libgif4 and has these symlinks:
  /usr/lib/libungif.a -> libgif.a
  /usr/lib/libungif.so -> libgif.so.4.1.6
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgif.so -> libgif.so.4.1.6
  /usr/lib/libungif.la -> libgif.la

  libgif4 has these files:
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgif.so.4.1.6
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgif.so.4 -> libgif.so.4.1.6

  Only the 3rd symlink (the multiarch one) in libgif-dev is correct. The
  others are dangling.

  This was caused by an obsolete debian/libgif-dev.links

  Test Case
  =========
  Verify that libgif-dev only includes the one working symlink:
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgif.so -> libgif.so.4.1.6

  Regression Potential
  ====================
  None, just removing some dangling symlinks that couldn't work any way.

  Original Bug Report
  ===================
  In Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on x86_64 I am experiencing the following bug in libgif-dev 4.1.6-11:

  Symbol links for libungif.a, libungif.la, and libungif.so are created
  in /usr/lib that point to libgif.a, libgif.la and libgif.so.4.1.6
  respectively. However, these files are not in /usr/lib but in
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu. Therefore, the symbol links are invalid.

  I suggest fixing this by placing the symbol links in the same
  directory as the target files.

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