On 2020-06-15 17:09, Aleksei Nikiforov via Boost wrote:
Not sure what happens with them in Debian, but those symlinks seem to be not packaged as well.
Debian/Ubuntu packages do have symlinks - in dev packages. Binary packages only contain libraries with ABI version tags in their names. https://packages.debian.org/buster/amd64/libboost-filesystem1.67-dev/filelis... https://packages.debian.org/buster/amd64/libboost-filesystem1.67.0/filelist In general, you do want the untagged library names available only in dev packages to enable linking with the library. In binary packages you want tagged library names to allow installing multiple ABI-incompatible versions of the library on target systems. Since Boost does not maintain ABI compatibility, this means Boost libraries include the full Boost version as the ABI tag.