Since reporting this bug TWO YEARS ago (2014-12-01), my system has moved on to
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04 LTS" With the current package versions installed for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial graphviz 2.38.0-12ubuntu2 graphviz-doc 2.38.0-12ubuntu2 libgraphviz-dev 2.38.0-12ubuntu2 there are, in /usr/lib/graphviz, the two dangling symbolic links lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2016-03-13 23:30 libgvplugin_gdk.so -> libgvplugin_gdk.so.6.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2016-03-13 23:30 libgvplugin_gtk.so -> libgvplugin_gtk.so.6.0.0 After downloading all of the required "proposed" new packages and Setting up libcdt5 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up libcgraph6 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up libgvpr2 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up libpathplan4 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up libxdot4 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up libgvc6 (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up graphviz (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up libgvc6-plugins-gtk (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ... Setting up libgraphviz-dev (2.38.0-12ubuntu2.1) ... the symbolic links no longer dangle because the gdk and gtk plugin shared library files are present. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gdk.so -> libgvplugin_gdk.so.6.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gdk.so.6 -> libgvplugin_gdk.so.6.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10100 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gdk.so.6.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gtk.so -> libgvplugin_gtk.so.6.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gtk.so.6 -> libgvplugin_gtk.so.6.0.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30636 2017-01-05 22:17 libgvplugin_gtk.so.6.0.0 Thank you for finally fixing this problem and thank you to Jeremy for all his work in maintaining and packaging this and other packages. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1398028 Title: libgraphviz-dev: dangling symbolic links for missing files libgvplugin_gdk.so and libgvplugin_gtk.so To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphviz/+bug/1398028/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
