Your Python ctypes wrapper for libarchive is "development" code, by
definition, if it requires the .so symlink. Either work around the
problem by other means, or accept that there is a dependency on
libarchive-dev.
For background, examine how other packages are doing this:
$ for f in /usr/lib/*.so; do
> test -L "$f" && dpkg -S "$f" && continue
> echo "*** $f: not a symlink"
> dpkg -S "$f"
> done
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libanl.so
gettext: /usr/lib/libasprintf.so
gettext: /usr/lib/libasprintf.so
*** /usr/lib/libbfd-2.20.1-system.20100303.so: not a symlink
binutils: /usr/lib/libbfd-2.20.1-system.20100303.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libBrokenLocale.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libcidn.so
libssl-dev: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libcrypt.so
*** /usr/lib/libc.so: not a symlink
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libc.so
*** /usr/lib/libdb-4.5.so: not a symlink
libdb4.5: /usr/lib/libdb-4.5.so
*** /usr/lib/libdb-4.6.so: not a symlink
libdb4.6: /usr/lib/libdb-4.6.so
*** /usr/lib/libdb-4.7.so: not a symlink
libdb4.7: /usr/lib/libdb-4.7.so
*** /usr/lib/libdb-4.8.so: not a symlink
libdb4.8: /usr/lib/libdb-4.8.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libdl.so
*** /usr/lib/libgettextlib-0.18.1.so: not a symlink
gettext: /usr/lib/libgettextlib-0.18.1.so
gettext: /usr/lib/libgettextlib.so
gettext: /usr/lib/libgettextpo.so
*** /usr/lib/libgettextsrc-0.18.1.so: not a symlink
gettext: /usr/lib/libgettextsrc-0.18.1.so
gettext: /usr/lib/libgettextsrc.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libm.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnsl.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnss_compat.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnss_dns.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnss_files.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnss_hesiod.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnss_nisplus.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libnss_nis.so
*** /usr/lib/libopcodes-2.20.1-system.20100303.so: not a symlink
binutils: /usr/lib/libopcodes-2.20.1-system.20100303.so
*** /usr/lib/libpthread.so: not a symlink
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libpthread.so
python2.5-dev: /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so
python2.6-dev: /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libresolv.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/librt.so
ruby1.8-dev: /usr/lib/libruby1.8.so
libssl-dev: /usr/lib/libssl.so
libtextcat-dev: /usr/lib/libtextcat.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so
libc6-dev: /usr/lib/libutil.so
zlib1g-dev: /usr/lib/libz.so
*** /usr/lib/preloadable_libintl.so: not a symlink
gettext: /usr/lib/preloadable_libintl.so
This is on a system where there are not many *-dev packages, but you can
see that the vast majority of symlinks are from *-dev packages. Apart
from gettext, the general observation would seem to be that the library
itself installs a *.so file which is not a symlink when the package name
already embeds a version number anyway.
If you would like for things to be handled differently in Debian-based
distributions, you should raise a bug against Debian policy. This is
purely academic, though; I am pretty sure you cannot convince them to
change how this works unless you can come up with a truly compelling
reason why the current policy is broken.
** Changed in: libarchive (Ubuntu)
Status: Expired => Invalid
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