On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 06:38:02PM -0800, Joshua Kwan wrote: > Package: libncurses5-dev > Version: 5.3.20030719-4 > Severity: important > > $SUBJECT. This is why: > > dpkg-shlibdeps.orig: warning: unable to find dependency information for > shared library libncurses (soname 5, path /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5, > dependency field Depends) > > The reason for this happening is that ldconfig determines that it needs > to create that symlink for some reason, even though everything works > just fine without. But when that symlink gets made, dpkg-shlibdeps > doesn't know anything about it. > > So either the package must ship that symlink in the package to allow > dpkg-shlibdeps to find it or somehow make ldconfig never create it.
Something is very wrong. /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 should never be created, because the library already exists in /lib. And it certainly shouldn't be created pointing to libtermcap.so. But I just found the same shared library on my installation, so maybe it's an ldconfig bug? -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer