[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#715064: Broken library symlink detected in firebird-dev

[Rene Engelhard]

[ I am NOT the firebird maintainer but I noticed this yesterday
when trying LO 4.2s git - which uses firebird now ]

On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 05:01:14AM +0000, David Steele wrote:
> The log contains the following broken symlinks:
> 
>   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfbembed.so
>     -> libfbembed.so.2.5.2

libfbembed2.5 is only in Suggests...

So you happily can install a firebird-dev without even having a valid
.so symlink for libfbembed thus breaking the build - you explcitly need

Build-Depends: [...] firebird-dev, [...] libfbembed2.5, [...]

which IMHO is bad.

What is the reason that firebird-dev doesn't simply dpeend on it? It's small
and it's a -dev package so people expect the stuff to work by just installing
the -dev package. Not a extra package.

Regards,

Rene