On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 11:09:47AM +0200, Carsten Schoenert wrote: > That's all correct, but right now upstream is opening libngspice.so, > *not* libngspice.so.0!
which i suggested to fix. in the package and (also) upstream. > Upstream > stated they had problems to get this working correctly (while this > feature was added in 2016) and they did the fallback to use dlopen > globally here. To me, it looked more like they had good reasons not to link. and i can't see anything wrong with calling dlopen in that situation. I did not know anybody is even trying to change it. YMMV. > Because of this I won't invest more time here, there is no real gain on > doing this. fair enough. > > also, the package name libngspice0-dev seems to be wrong. that should > > have produced a lintian warning...? > > No and it never did. > [..] > $ grep Package: > /var/lib/apt/lists/*_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-amd64_Packages | > grep "\-dev$" My memory was corrupted on this, thanks for the clarification! best felix
