libplist++-dev-0.13.2 installs bad symlinks

[Nathan Phillip Brink (binki)]

npb5@eusebius:~/libimobiledevice-1.0.2$ nm -D /usr/lib/libplist++.so
nm: '/usr/lib/libplist++.so': No such file
npb5@eusebius:~/libimobiledevice-1.0.2$ readlink /usr/lib/libplist++.so
libplist++.so.1
npb5@eusebius:~/libimobiledevice-1.0.2$ readlink /usr/lib/libplist++.so.1
npb5@eusebius:~/libimobiledevice-1.0.2$ ls -lha /usr/lib/libplist*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2010-06-30 14:09 /usr/lib/libplist.so -> libplist.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2010-06-30 14:27 /usr/lib/libplist++.so -> libplist++.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2010-05-26 10:47 /usr/lib/libplist.so.1 -> libplist.so.1.1.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35K 2010-03-19 21:56 /usr/lib/libplist.so.1.1.1
npb5@eusebius:~/libimobiledevice-1.0.2$ sudo apt-get install libplist++-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libplist++-dev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 51 not upgraded.
npb5@eusebius:~/libimobiledevice-1.0.2$ apt-cache pkginfo libplist++-dev
E: Invalid operation pkginfo
npb5@eusebius:~/libimobiledevice-1.0.2$ apt-cache showinfo libplist++-dev
E: Invalid operation showinfo
npb5@eusebius:~/libimobiledevice-1.0.2$ apt-get showinfo libplist++-dev
E: Invalid operation showinfo
npb5@eusebius:~/libimobiledevice-1.0.2$ apt-cache showpkg libplist++-dev
Package: libplist++-dev
Versions:
1.1-1ubuntu1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_main_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: 7fd9e652ed1f661a98bf6fbb23204697

Reverse Depends:
Dependencies:
1.1-1ubuntu1 - libplist1 (5 1.1-1ubuntu1) libxml2-dev (0 (null)) libglib2.0-dev (0 (null)) libplist-dev (1 0.13.2) libplist-dev (1 0.13.2)
Provides:
1.1-1ubuntu1 -
Reverse Provides:
npb5@eusebius:~/libimobiledevice-1.0.2$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04
npb5@eusebius:~/libimobiledevice-1.0.2$

[Nathan Phillip Brink (binki) (ohnobinki)]

I was able to work around this by the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install libplist++1

[Julien Lavergne (gilir)]

Thanks for the bug report, I'll prepare a fix for this.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libplist - 1.4-2

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libplist (1.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

  * debian/control:
   - Add references to iDevices and some examples.
   - Update Maintainer field, and add me to Uploaders.
   - Update Vcs-*.
   - Update Homepage.
   - Remove build-depends on python-support, to migrate to dh_python2.
   - Bump build-depends on python-all-dev (>= 2.6.6-3~), for dh_python2
     support.
   - Use X-Python-Version for supported python version.
   - Remove Provides.
   - Depends on libplist++1 for libplist++-dev, instead of libplist1
     (LP: #600338)
   - Fix typo in description (Closes: #620864).
   - Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2 (no change needed).
   - Add depends on libjs-jquery for libplist-doc.
  * debian/python-plist.preinst:
   - Remove after Squeeze release.
  * debian/rules:
   - Use dh --with python2.
   - Parse only the default python version, we can only pass 1 version to
     configure.
   - Pass --no-guessing-versions to dh_python2 to build only with default
     python version.
  * debian/gbp.conf:
   - Add.
  * debian/patches/
   - 04-Add-missing-include-cstddef-to-fix-FTBFS-with-GCC-4-6.patch:
     From Ubuntu, Fix FTBFS with GCC 4.6 Closes: #624868, #624988, LP: #765982
  * debian/libplist.links:
   - Symlink jquery.js to the one available in Debian.
 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Wed, 11 May 2011 15:50:53 +0000