Lintian tag: lacks-unversioned-link-to-shared-library

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

A -dev package is supposed to install an unversioned symbolic link that
references the shared library by name.

There is no requirement that the names are otherwise related.

The dynamic linker uses the link to load the executable into memory.

In most cases, the symbolic link should be in the same folder as the
library itself. A major exception are libraries installed under /lib. In
those cases, the links should go into the corresponding folders under
/usr.

For a library installed as /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXYZ.so.V, a good link
would be /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libXYZ.so.

This tag is emitted for the library package and not for the -dev package.
That is because Lintian looks for links after locating the library. The
links can be in any of several installables, but there is only one library
for each set of links pointing to it.

Please refer to debian-policy 8.4 Bug#963099 for details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: libraries/shared/links
Renamed from: dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink

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