libgif-dev: dangling symlinks for missing files libungif.a, libungif.la, libungif.so

[J G Miller]

PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS"
VERSION="14.04.1 LTS, Trusty Tahr"

For both architecture i386 and architecture amd64 version packages of libgif-dev

Package: libgif-dev
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Source: giflib
Version: 4.1.6-11

dangling symlinks are created in /usr/lib

0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2013-12-16 07:24 /usr/lib/libungif.a -> libgif.a
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2013-12-16 07:24 /usr/lib/libungif.la -> libgif.la
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2013-12-16 07:24 /usr/lib/libungif.so -> libgif.so.4.1.6

No package contains libgif.la. but both libgif.a and libgif.so.4.1.6 are located in /usr/lib/{architecture}, where architecture is i386-linux-gnu or x86_64-linux-gnu, or as appropriate for other architectures.

Please correct the libgif-dev install script to point these symbolic links to the file in the correct directory, and either supply libgif.la if appropriate in the libgif4 package or do not create the symbolic link to libgif.la.

[J G Miller (jgmiller)]

Please move this bug from package graphviz to libgif4.

Launchpad is deficient in not asking which package to file a bug against, if a bug has just been reported on a package, and continues to append bug reports to the same package..

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.