Libs package split is a bit wonkey, shared modules are in a different package than the symlinks
I didn't look at the sources to figure out why it ended up this way but as a downstream consumer something looks a bit wonky. I'm trying to fix up library dependencies (for usd#1 (closed)) and tried to use pacman -F libboost_python311.so. The answer I got was the boost package, but while looking at the package info pacman -Si boost-libs claims to provide that. Well it turns out the library itself seems to be in the -libs package but there are symlinks to it as unversioned that are packaged in the main package. It seems like those should be in one package or the other but not split across two...
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assigned to @foutrelis, @morganamilo, @toolybird, and @thurstylark
It's correct, as these symlinks are used when linking and are considered development files (like headers.) It was changed in commit 85ebc572.
