Bug#751111: Improper shared lib package (SONAME contains python/tcl/java version)

Tue Jun 10 18:35:53 UTC 2014

severity 751111 important
thanks

2014-06-10 14:49 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org>:
> Should be removed from the package since the SONAME will change when
> python 2.7 will not be the default python version (for example).

It will unlikely happen:

"Python 2.7 is scheduled to be the last major version in the 2.x series " [1]

Switch to 3.x requires a lot of modifications and will definitely have a new
soversion.

[1] https://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7

Anton