[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#566540: hdf5 package does not follow the Debian policy on shared libraries

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Package: hdf5
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 8.1

Hello,

HDF5 packages do not follow Debian policy on shared libraries:

* We should have lihdf5 with the soname number inside the name of the package
not the whole version of hdf.
* The version number of the soname should be increased only when the ABI is 
changed and not on each new upstream release.

Please consider changing this, it would same a lot of time for maintainers
of packages based on hdf5 (jhdf, scilab, etc).

Thanks
Sylvestre


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash