[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 273558] Re: /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 missing from Intrepid

[Joshua Wise]

nullack,

There are two of us on the X-Plane team here watching this bug.  I am
one of the "Linux support guys"; I have received no e-mail from you, so
I will assume that you talked to Ben, who posted earlier. Ben also
knows, though, that there is in fact a problem.

We are actively working to make X-Plane work better under Linux, and so
we're following this issue here.  If you need support with X-Plane,
please send an e-mail to Randy (not to Austin directly), at
info at x-plane.com; Austin is, in fact, very busy, and not actively
engaged with Linux technical support.  We'd like to engage our users and
the Ubuntu community in making X-Plane a better product, but we can't do
that unless issues are filed to us through the correct channels.  (I
digress, though; the Launchpad bug tracker for Ubuntu also isn't the
correct forum for this!)

In any event, I still think that there should be no harm in shipping
both versions (libopenal0a and libopenal1) in different packages, just
as Ubuntu does for liblua, libqt, and I'm sure countless other
libraries.

Thanks,
joshua

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/usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 missing from Intrepid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/273558
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Status in “openal-soft” source package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix

Bug description:
Binary package hint: libopenal1
Version: 1:1.3.253-4ubuntu1

The libopenal1 binary package in Intrepid replaces the old libopenal0a binary package from Hardy, Gutsy etc. libopenal0a created /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0, but the new libopenal1 package does not (it creates /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1 instead).

This breaks some third-party binaries, eg X-Plane (http://www.x-plane.com/).

Suggested fix:
The libopenal1 binary package should create a symbolic link from /usr/lib/libopenal.so.0 to /usr/lib/libopenal.so.1

Alternative fix:
Retain the old libopenal0a binary package in Intrepid, in addition to the new libopenal1 binary package. And change the libopenal1 package so that it does not replace libopenal0 or libopenal0a.