[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#427211: firebird2-dev: libgds.so symlink points nowhere

[Sune Vuorela]

Package: firebird2-dev
Version: 1.5.3.4870-12
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Hi!

A recent change in libfbclient1 made it ship the file 
/usr/lib/libfbclient.so.1.5.4

while firebird2-dev comes with
$ ls -la /usr/lib/libgds.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 2007-06-02 13:57 /usr/lib/libgds.so -> libfbclient.so.1.5.3


This makes packages build-depending on firebird2-dev fail to build from
source.

See for example 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427181  (in php)

or

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=427191 (in qt-x11-free)

I don't know if the solution is stricter dependencies on libfbclient1,
but it might be.

A quick fix would be much appreciated

/Sune




-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-vserver-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages firebird2-dev depends on:
ii  libfbclient1             1.5.4.4910rel-6 Firebird client library
ii  libfbembed1              1.5.4.4910rel-6 Firebird embedded client/server li

firebird2-dev recommends no packages.

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