Just to be sure we don't loose sight of the original intent of this
bug....

The bug is that 8.04 breaks binary compatibility with previous releases
by removing an interface (libexpat.so.0).  The fact that wink has been
"fixed" is great, but does not address the fundamental issue.

> Matthias Klose  
> please could somebody demonstrate the problem instead of saying "the symlink 
> is missing"

I have an application. It runs fine on 6.06 LTS and 7.10.  When I try 
to run it on 8.04 it fails because 8.04 has broken binary compatibility
with previous releases by removing libexpat.so.0

Granted, I don't know what Ubuntu's binary compatibility policy is
(I haven't found it formally stated anywhere). But this breakage seems 
gratuitous.

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libexpat1 does not contain libexpat.so.0 in 8.04 Beta
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/218963
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