devel package for only two symlinks?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 16:08 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 03:42:41PM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > According to the reviewing guidelines:
> > - MUST: If a package contains library files with a suffix (e.g.
> > libfoo.so.1.1), then library files that end in .so (without suffix) must
> > go in a -devel package.
> > 
> > But I doubt this doesn't make much sense for symlinks, does it?

> If something dlopens the library, then .so files are needed,
In this generality such a statement is not correct.

Which files a dlopen opens is an implementation detail of
application/library conventions and diverges largely between packages.

It sometimes the files being dlopened are named "*.so", but not always.
Theoretically it can be any name. Good designs don't use '*.so'.

Ralf