On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 12:47:20PM -0000, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Oh, maybe the test case is wrong. This SRU is the same fix as was done > in Debian's 5.1.1 (present in Xenial) to "not ship broken symlinks". > > See https://bugs.debian.org/732272 and comment #2
Different considerations apply to the development release, of course. But if that is what is proposed to be done in Trusty, why is the SRU needed at all? This "fix" won't solve anything for the user, will it? -- 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 Status in giflib package in Debian: Unknown 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
