[Bug 1424602] Re: Unable do load lua-rrd, no rrd.so exists

[Robie Basak]

It's standard in Debian and Ubuntu to provide the .so symlink only in
the -dev package. This is because anything linking against it at runtime
should access the version of the library it has specifically been built
with (or designed for) by accessing <libary>.so.<version>. Otherwise it
could pick up the wrong file and this would break things.

On the other hand, when developing you generally want to link against
the "current" or "latest", so the symlink is provided for that (but you
shouldn't install the -dev packages from multiple versions at once).

As this is the standard for all packages in Debian, we can't treat it as
a bug unless there's some specific reason that this package should
diverge from the standard.

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  Unable do load lua-rrd, no rrd.so exists

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