dependency sharing problem in metakit

This hasn't been reported upstream - but it doesn't seem to be a very well used package (so perhaps not surprising)

http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=libmk4-2.4.9.3.so&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=edgy&arch=i386

says:

usr/lib/libmk4-2.4.9.3.so occurs in:
libdevel/libmetakit2.4.9.3-dev and
libs/libmetakit2.4.9.3c2

and that libmetakit2.4.9.3-dev depends on libmetakit2.4.9.3c2

Confirmed

Hmm... I'm no genius, but it seems that all you need is /usr/lib/libmk4.so and /usr/include/mk4.h. There are also three other headers, but I haven't needed them (they're in the include directory in the source package, so you probably should use them). I have a compiled version running, and I don't know why all the other libraries are included (other than the docs, of course). This was compiled from the source according to it's configure script. It's a static library, and I can run applications fine without it being present, so I guess these could just become on package containing the library, the headers, and the doxygen docs. I've attacked those files in a tar.gz archive, if that's what you guys want to do. Also, there are two .inl files in the /include directory, so they're in there too. (I have no idea what they are, but if they're in the /include directory, it sounds like a good idea. - oh wait, apparently they're for visual C++. I'll put them in anyway, just in case.)

This appears to have been fixed but I can find no specific mention of it in the changelogs. What version Ubuntu is this and exactly which version and release of libmetakit is this? Thanks for the bug report!

It was originally found on Edgy, but unfortunately I don't know the package version. Unfortunately, this isn't even the most updated version of metakit - there needs to be a plain libmetakit package, without a specific version. I do know that it was still around when the Feisty upgrade came, so it was there in the oldest post-Feisty copy..

Well upgrades would be an issue because the files would still be around. Can anyone else confirm this on a clean Gutsy install? I cannot. Thanks.

I've tryed to install libmetakit2.4.9.3-dev in Gutsy and I had no overwriting problem.

I've tryed to install libmetakit2.4.9.3-dev in a clean pbuilder envy for Gutsy and Hardy and it's all ok.