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[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:45:32AM +0100, Matthias Saou wrote:
> 
> The two libraries, libcaca and libcucul, got merged into libcaca. Note
> that this version installs "compatibility" symlinks as "libcucul.so.0
> -> libcaca.so.0", but those aren't detected as provides by rpm.

If there is no associated soname, but only a symlink, I think that it is
normal that rpm doesn't detect it, and the linker shouldn't either.
If libcaca now provides the soname, then there is a bug somewhere.

> Dependant external programs simply need to be rebuilt. Another (ugly)
> solution might be to add explicit "Provides:" for libcucul sonames to
> the package.

But would the linker find the link? If not then the Provides should not
be there and packages should be rebuilt, to pick the new soname.

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Pat