[Pkg-octave-devel] Downgrade of Octave libraries SOVERSION

[John W. Eaton]

On 08/09/2016 09:28 AM, Rafael Laboissière wrote:
> Does anyone know why the SOVERSIONs of the Octave shared libraries are
> downgraded from version 4.0.3 to the current hg sources?  I see this:
>
>    $ sudo aptitude install liboctave3v5/unstable
>    [snip]
>    $ dpkg -l liboctave3v5 | grep ^ii
>    ii  liboctave3v5:amd64 4.0.3-1      amd64        Shared libraries of
> the GNU Octave language
>    $ dpkg -L liboctave3v5 | grep so.3.
>    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liboctave.so.3.0.2
>    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liboctinterp.so.3.1.1
>    $ sudo aptitude install liboctave3v5/experimental
>    [snip]
>    $ dpkg -l liboctave3v5 | grep ^ii
>    ii  liboctave3v5:amd64 4.1.0~hg.20160708.22076-1 amd64        Shared
> libraries of the GNU Octave language
>    $ dpkg -L liboctave3v5 | grep so.3.
>    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liboctave.so.3.0.0
>    /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liboctinterp.so.3.0.0

The are out of date because the development version SOVERSIONSs haven't 
changed since the last stable release was branched.  We only update them 
just prior to actual releases, not every time some interface change is 
made in the development sources between releases.

> Will this be fixed before the release of version 4.2?

Yes.

jwe