On 2021-01-02 Federico Grau <donf...@casagrau.org> wrote: > Package: libpulse-dev > Version: 12.2-4+deb10u1 > Severity: normal
> Dear Maintainer, > * What led up to the situation? > Other programs were failing, because they were unable to load > libpulse-simple.so library file with only libpulse0 package installed. > The xcwcp package is one such example. > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? > A workaround is to install libpulse-dev in addition to libpulse0. > However this also installs several additional other packages, and should > not be required for standard library usage. > Attached is a patch against current salsa.debian.org git, to alter the > debian file packaging associating library .so files with the library > package. [...] > diff --git a/debian/libpulse0.install b/debian/libpulse0.install > index cf55606f..cf3d95ed 100644 > --- a/debian/libpulse0.install > +++ b/debian/libpulse0.install > @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ > etc/pulse/client.conf > +usr/lib/*/libpulse.so [...] Hello, that change is in direct opposition to to Debian's way of handling shared libraries. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html If xcwcp requires the unversioned .so it will need a dependency on the development package. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure'