[Pkg-octave-devel] Missing SOVERSION bump in graphicsmagick?

Rafael Laboissiere rafael at laboissiere.net
Tue Nov 3 08:37:56 UTC 2015


I am getting the following error message in a Debian unstable system:

error: default_formats: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/octave/4.0.0/oct/i586-pc-linux-gnu/__magick_read__.oct: failed to load: libGraphicsMagick++-Q16.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

This is strange, because:

    $ apt-cache showpkg libgraphicsmagick++-q16-11 | grep '\(Reverse Dep\|octave\)'
    Reverse Depends:
      octave,libgraphicsmagick++-q16-11

and:

    $ dpkg -L libgraphicsmagick++-q16-11 | grep /usr/lib
    /usr/lib
    /usr/lib/libGraphicsMagick++-Q16.so.12.0.0
    /usr/lib/libGraphicsMagick++-Q16.so.12

It seems that a new upstream version was recently released:

    graphicsmagick (1.3.22-1) unstable; urgency=low

      * New upstream release.
      * Update libgraphicsmagick-q16-3 symbols file.
      * Update watch file.

     -- Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <gcs at debian.org>  Fri, 23 Oct 2015 21:01:39 +0200

in which there was a SOVERSION bump, but the package maintainer kept 
the package name "libgraphicsmagick++-q16-11", instead of creating a 
new "libgraphicsmagick++-q16-12" package.

Is my analysis correct?  Should I file a bug report against 
src:graphicsmagick?

Rafael



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