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It is expected behaviour to have both libmysqlclient.so.16 and libmysqlclient.18.
The symlink to libmysqlclient.so.16 is a bug, it should be libmysqlclient.so.18. It will be fixed in the next 5.5 release, thanks for pointing this out!
https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-257