--- rpm-5.4.7/lib/rpmds.c.req_devel~	2012-03-16 19:48:32.709515656 +0100
+++ rpm-5.4.7/lib/rpmds.c	2012-03-16 19:53:14.181863892 +0100
@@ -3547,10 +3547,15 @@ int rpmdsSymlink(const char * fn, int fl
 	"libnss_hesiod.so", "libnss_nis.so", "libnss_nisplus.so", "libpthread.so",
 	"libresolv.so", "librt.so", "libutil.so", "libthread_db.so"};
     ARGV_t deps = NULL;
-
+    miRE mire;
+ 
+    mire = mireNew(RPMMIRE_REGEX, RPMTAG_FILEPATHS);
     /* Filename must end with ".so" to be devel(...) dependency. */
-    if ((s = strrchr(fn, '.')) && strcmp(s, ".so"))
-	return 0;
+    if (!mireRegcomp(mire, "^.*/(|usr/)lib(|64)/lib.*\\.so$"))
+	xx = mireRegexec(mire, fn, (size_t) 0);
+    mire = mireFree(mire);
+    if (xx < 0)
+ 	return 0;
 
 /*@-castfcnptr@*/
 if (_rpmds_debug < 0)
@@ -3566,14 +3571,20 @@ fprintf(stderr, "*** rpmdsELF(%s, %d, %p
     }
 
     if (is_symlink) {
-#ifdef NOT_YET
+	const char *bn;
 	if ((lnklen = readlink(fn, path, MAXPATHLEN - 1)) == -1) {
 	    warn("%s", fn);
 	    return -1;
 	}
 	/* XXX: unused, path should expand to absolute path... */
 	path[lnklen] = '\0';
-#endif
+
+	/* if filename of library linked to isn't consistent with symlink
+	 * filename, then we skip it
+	 */
+	bn = basename((char*)fn);
+	if (strncmp(bn, basename(path), (size_t)(strstr(bn, ".so") - bn)))
+	    return 0;
     } else {
 	FILE *fp = fopen(fn, "r");
 	char buf[BUFSIZ];