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

[Mathieu Malaterre]

severity 751111 serious
thanks

I've even mentioned the debian policy section related to this issue,
so keep the severity as required.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:35 PM, Anton Gladky <gladk at debian.org> wrote:
> 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

So what ? The policy is pretty clear about that, it *will* make it
difficult. The point is to make it easy before hand ("when in doubt").
Please fix your package and split python/tcl/java binding out of the
shared package, they are totally unrelated (different SONAME).