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FS#35446 - [db] duplicate files

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Lauri Kenttä (LK) - Thursday, 23 May 2013, 19:45 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 12 January 2014, 18:38 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Stéphane Gaudreault (stephane)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
There are duplicate files in the db package:

1)
/usr/lib/libdb.a
/usr/lib/libdb-5.3.a
(some timestamps apparently differ, but the extracted contents are identical)

2)
/usr/lib/libdb_cxx.a
/usr/lib/libdb_cxx-5.3.a
(absolutely identical)

Additional info:
* db 5.3.21-1

Steps to reproduce:
ls -li /usr/lib/libdb*.a
diff -s /usr/lib/libdb_cxx*.a
diff -s <(ar p /usr/lib/libdb.a) <(ar p /usr/lib/libdb-5.3.a)

Actual result: distinct files with same content (except for some timestamps).

Expected result: symlinked files, just like the corresponding shared objects are, or no -5.3 files at all.
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Sunday, 12 January 2014, 18:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Stéphane Gaudreault (stephane) - Tuesday, 28 May 2013, 15:08 GMT
I plan to remove all static libs in the next update .. so duplicate should disappear too.
Comment by Johannes Löthberg (demize) - Sunday, 12 January 2014, 11:54 GMT
Static libs are gone and the .so's are symlinks.

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