[Debichem-devel] Bug#1137170: Bug#1137170: libsimint-dev: Shared library should be built

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 01:29:18PM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> Note that there is no proper soname for the shared library,
> a soname would have to be created and maintained in Debian
> (but simint upstream looks rather dormant).

Well that's the reason I often don't bother with shared libraries for
scientific software - it is too difficult to make upstream care enough
and/or educate them to get this right, and I don't feel like it is
Debian's job to maintain library versioning when upstream is not on
board at all.

If siminit proves to be popular enough that it grows a moderate list of
reverse dependencies I might reconsider, but right now the main reason I
packaged is it the fact it is a requirement for newer versions of psi4.


Michael