Bug#1109353: libopenjp2-7-dev: Broken symlinks: libopenjpip.so.7, openjpeg-2.1

Evan Daykin daykin at frib.msu.edu
Tue Jul 15 19:44:04 BST 2025


Package: libopenjp2-7-dev
Version: 2.5.3-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-amd64 at lists.debian.org, daykin at frib.msu.edu
User: debian-amd64 at lists.debian.org
Usertags: amd64

Hello,

A package of ours is using libopenjp2-7-dev and encounters the following warnings in piuparts:

WARN: Broken symlinks:
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenjpip.so -> libopenjpip.so.7 (libopenjp2-7-dev:amd64)
  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openjpeg-2.1 -> openjpeg-2.5 (libopenjp2-7-dev:amd64)

I can reproduce the issue like so:
1. create a fresh pbuilder/cowbuilder environment on trixie
2. login to the environment; sudo pbuilder login
3. apt install libopenjp2-7-dev
4. find /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ -type l ! -exec test -e {} \; -print

It yields: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenjpip.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openjpeg-2.1. these point to nonexistent libopenjpip.so.7 and openjpeg-2.5, respectively.

Cheers,
Evan

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.11.0-29-generic (SMP w/14 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages libopenjp2-7-dev depends on:
ii  libopenjp2-7  2.5.3-2

libopenjp2-7-dev recommends no packages.

libopenjp2-7-dev suggests no packages.

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