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

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 09:37:56 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> 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?

Looks already filed as #803958 :)

-- 
mike