I tested the package from trusty-proposed, but I am not sure whether the issue can be considered fixed.
In fact, the dangling symlinks have been removed, but they have not been added in the right place. This means that software depending on libungif will still not compile. The question is, whether this is by intention: Should libgif provide an alias for libungif (because it effectively provides the functionality of libungif) or is it an intentional choice not to provide libungif and should all software depending on it be changed to depend on libgif instead? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to giflib in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1337898 Title: Invalid symlinks for libungif.so and libungif.a Status in giflib package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in giflib source package in Trusty: Fix Committed Bug description: Impact ====== Linking programs that need libungif ("-lungif") will fail. Test Case ========= apt-get install build-essential libgif-dev cat >>test.c EOF int main(int argc, char **argv) { return 0; } EOF gcc -lungif test.c GCC will fail with "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lungif" on affected systems. 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/giflib/+bug/1337898/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
