Dear all, I am starring at the libvtk6 package:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libvtk6/filelist This package provides 363 shared lib (SOVERSION set to the same value). However as per policy: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html#s-sharedlibs-runtime [...] If you have several shared libraries built from the same source tree, you may lump them all together into a single shared library package provided that all of their SONAMEs will always change together. Be aware that this is not normally the case, and if the SONAMEs do not change together, upgrading such a merged shared library package will be unnecessarily difficult because of file conflicts with the old version of the package. When in doubt, always split shared library packages so that each binary package installs a single shared library. [...] Reading this section make me feel that lib such as: $ readelf -d libvtkImagingColorPython27D-6.1.so.6.1.0 Dynamic section at offset 0xa020 contains 32 entries: Tag Type Name/Value 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libvtkImagingColor-6.1.so.6.1] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libvtkWrappingPython27Core-6.1.so.6.1] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libvtkImagingCorePython27D-6.1.so.6.1] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libvtkCommonExecutionModelPython27D-6.1.so.6.1] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libpython2.7.so.1.0] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libvtkCommonCore-6.1.so.6.1] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libstdc++.so.6] 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6] 0x000000000000000e (SONAME) Library soname: [libvtkImagingColorPython27D-6.1.so.6.1] Should be removed from the package since the SONAME will change when python 2.7 will not be the default python version (for example). Indeed the SONAME contains the Python version (per upstream convention). However the debian policy does not make it a strict requirement. Comments ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CA+7wUswrC4cTV=u1zbl265eo7reijul+qubhgl9_u3anudn...@mail.gmail.com
