Stefan Krah added the comment: I wanted to force people to link explicitly with -l:libmpdec.so.2 in order to avoid picking up a wrong version. But indeed that won't work since the GNU linker happily picks up the static lib with -lmpdec if libmpdec.so is missing.
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