vulkan-loader missing symbolic links inside /usr/lib

[Norman-Normandy]

Is this a new report?

Yes

System Info

Void 6.9.2_1 x86_64 AuthenticAMD uptodate rrrmmnFFFFFFFFF

Package(s) Affected

vulkan-loader-1.3.261.1_2

Does a report exist for this bug with the project's home (upstream) and/or another distro?

Similar issues: #44317 #18105 #44317

Expected behaviour

The symbolic links should be:
/usr/lib/libvulkan.so -> libvulkan.so.1
/usr/lib/libvulkan.so.1 -> libvulkan.so.1.3.261
/usr/lib/libvulkan.so.1.3.261

Actual behaviour

But instead found:
/usr/lib/libvulkan.so.1 -> libvulkan.so.1.3.261
/usr/lib/libvulkan.so.1.3.261

Steps to reproduce

xbps-install -Su vulkan-loader

And see missing final symbolic link inside /usr/lib

Tried: "xbps-install -f" along with removing the package and removing orphans *(weren't any) and reinstalling.

I also tried xbps-reconfigure. Not sure if this is something on my end or effecting everyone.
In-fact other libraries are also missing their final symbolic links.

Running "xbps-pkgdb -a" gives:
ERROR: libksane6: unexistent file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/black-white.png.
ERROR: libksane6: unexistent file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/color.png.
ERROR: libksane6: unexistent file /usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/gray-scale.png.
ERROR: libksane6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/hne/LC_MESSAGES/libksane.mo.
ERROR: libksane6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/libksane.mo.
ERROR: libksane6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/libksane.mo.
ERROR: libksane6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/libksane.mo.
ERROR: libksane6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/libksane.mo.
ERROR: libksane6: files check FAILED.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: unexistent file /usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/ksanecore.mo.
ERROR: ksanecore6: files check FAILED.

Have not ever touched the /usr/lib directory manually. Only used xbps cli tools
and only once for this occasion to fix the issue temporarily by creating the final symbolic link after doing "xbps-pkgdb -a".

[Norman-Normandy]

Found libvulkan.so inside the "vulkan-loader-devel" package. Shouldn't it be inside the normal vulkan-loader as it was before?

[ahesford]

The "similar issues" aren't similar at all. What packages break as a result of the missing *.so symlink? Anything that properly links to libvulkan will inherit the proper soname and will work as expected; if there is something using dlopen that expects the libvulkan.so without a version, we should fix that problem directly.

[Norman-Normandy]

No pre-built binaries using the vulkan loader break. But my existing build pipelines for building them did because the gnu linker complains it can't find -lvulkan. Which was originally inside as /usr/lib/libvulkan.so and now suddenly it isn't, but instead part of the vulkan-loader-devel package. A package that I never installed before.

I understand development packages usually contain files for building projects where as the non-devel packages are for running existing binaries.

But was this change to remove "libvulkan.so" from the normal "vulkan-loader" into "vulkan-loader-devel" intentional?
Other distros I've used don't separate the library symbolic links. Including FreeBSD.

[ahesford]

I assume the change was intentional, because our standard practice is to put all unversioned library symlinks in -devel subpackages. The fix is to install that subpackage whenever you need the unversioned link, which could be to satisfy precompiled binaries or to establish a proper development environment.

[classabbyamp]

yes, moving the symlink was intentional, almost all .so symlinks are in devel packages