[Bug 1603137] [NEW] libbfd changed name without transition

[Julian Taylor]

Public bug reported:

the latest binutils update in xenial to 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04 changed the name of the libbfd library from: libbfd-2.26-system.so to libbfd-2.26.1-system.so
This apparently happened without transitioning all dependencies.
For example it broke the perf tool from the linux-tools-common package as it is still linked against the old libbfd name.

To reproduce run "perf" with linux >= 4.4.0-24.43 and binutils
2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04 and you get an cannot open libbfd-2.26-system.so
error.

** Affects: binutils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  libbfd changed name without transition

Status in binutils package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  the latest binutils update in xenial to 2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04 changed the name of the libbfd library from: libbfd-2.26-system.so to libbfd-2.26.1-system.so
  This apparently happened without transitioning all dependencies.
  For example it broke the perf tool from the linux-tools-common package as it is still linked against the old libbfd name.

  To reproduce run "perf" with linux >= 4.4.0-24.43 and binutils
  2.26.1-1ubuntu1~16.04 and you get an cannot open libbfd-2.26-system.so
  error.

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