[oe] mysql 5

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello Frans,

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks
<fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/7 Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl>:
>> On 06-11-09 15:33, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>>
>>> when installing mysql5 client or server packages they insist on
>>> installing libmysqlclient-dev
>>> No idea why this should be the -dev package. Content seems as expected.
>>> Solutions are welcome !
>>
>> Probably a .so file that isn't a symlink to so.4.5.5.64.4
>>
>
> Guess so, no idea how this symlinking exactly works and how it is
> split over the normal and the -dev package.
>
The package itself contains the version-named library.

The -dev package contains an non-version-named library .so symlink to
the (version-named) library itself.

Typically the -dev package should thus package the .so symlink.

Regards,
-- 
Leon