Bug#358192: libusb-0.1-4: please add a symlink from libusb.so

2006-03-28 Thread Richard Burton
For applications that explicitly load libusb.so at runtime with a dlopen call. In that case the application is broken. Using libusb.so instead of libusb-0.1.so.4 does not guarantee that the ABI is the right one. libusb will (probably) soon be released with a totally new ABI. Both old and

Bug#358192: libusb-0.1-4: please add a symlink from libusb.so

2006-03-24 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Richard Burton a écrit : You should not need the .so file at runtime, but only during development. That's why the .so file is in the -dev package, as for other libraries, and as required by the policy. Why do you need the .so file in the library package? For applications that explicitly

Bug#358192: libusb-0.1-4: please add a symlink from libusb.so

2006-03-22 Thread Richard Burton
You should not need the .so file at runtime, but only during development. That's why the .so file is in the -dev package, as for other libraries, and as required by the policy. Why do you need the .so file in the library package? For applications that explicitly load libusb.so at runtime

Bug#358192: libusb-0.1-4: please add a symlink from libusb.so

2006-03-21 Thread Richard Burton
libusb package provides no libusb.so, other distros do (checked on redhat) and some software expects it. Please provide a libusb.so symlink to real lib file. Just install libusb-dev. That's a workaround, but libusb is provided by the libusb package, not the libusb-dev package. It

Bug#358192: libusb-0.1-4: please add a symlink from libusb.so

2006-03-21 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Richard Burton a écrit : libusb package provides no libusb.so, other distros do (checked on redhat) and some software expects it. Please provide a libusb.so symlink to real lib file. Just install libusb-dev. That's a workaround, but libusb is provided by the libusb package, not the

Bug#358192: libusb-0.1-4: please add a symlink from libusb.so

2006-03-21 Thread Richard Antony Burton
Package: libusb-0.1-4 Version: 2:0.1.11-6 Severity: wishlist libusb package provides no libusb.so, other distros do (checked on redhat) and some software expects it. Please provide a libusb.so symlink to real lib file. Thanks, Richard. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable