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

[Anton Gladky]

severity 751111 important
thanks

2014-06-11 7:45 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org>:
> severity 751111 serious

Again, stop doing it!

I would like to hear also other's people opinions about this issue.
Then I will agree to raise up the severity if the problem really serious.

Thanks

Anton

> 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).