Hi Sylvestre and all HDF5 has a long history of API violations even for minor revisions. That motivated AFAIK use of a versioned library name in the past. In 1.8 series HDF Group finally added an official SONAME to the libraries (C/C++/Fortran with and without MPI). I adopted it instead of the Debian specific SONAME and library naming. The current package (but for latest oversight about 1.8.3->1.8.4 migration with the same SONAME) tries to be defensive on that regards, without sacrificing name consistency. In fact the current HDF5 roadmap will change library source package names at every minor/major release (also considering that the C++ ABI interface could be easily broken at each update without notice) and will use virtuals such as libhdf5-1.8 and libhdf5-1.8.x to manage multiple MPI/serial packages and colliding sonames. That should suffice to ensure consistency among upgrades.
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