Lintian tag: link-to-shared-library-in-wrong-package

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

Although this package is not a "-dev" package, it installs a
"libsomething.so" symbolic link referencing the corresponding shared
library. When the link doesn't include the version number, it is used by
the linker when other programs are built against this shared library.

Shared libraries are supposed to place such symbolic links in their
respective "-dev" packages, so it is a bug to include it with the main
library package.

However, if this is a small package which includes the runtime and the
development libraries, this is not a bug. In the latter case, please
override this warning.

Please refer to Development files (Section 8.4) in the Debian Policy
Manual for details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: libraries/shared/links
Renamed from: non-dev-pkg-with-shlib-symlink

Affected packages