[Pkg-octave-devel] In which package should liboctgui.so be?
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at laboissiere.net
Fri Jan 1 23:58:36 UTC 2016
The liboctgui.so* files are currently included in the the octave package,
contrary to the liboctave.so* and liboctinterp.so* files, which are
included in liboctave3v5. This is triggering the Lintian warning:
octave: postinst-has-useless-call-to-ldconfig
I am wondering whether The liboctgui.so* files should go into
liboctave3v5. However, by doing this, we will end up with different
libraries with different SOVERSIONs (liboctave and liboctinterp have 3 as
SOVERSION, while liboctgui has 1). I guess that this would be a
problem for naming the liboctave* package. As a matter of fact, after
a quick investigation, I found Debian packages containing different
libraries, but they all seem to have the same SOVERSION, e.g.:
$ dpkg -L libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0 | grep '/usr/lib/.*/lib.*.so\.[0-9]$'
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstallocators-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstaudio-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstpbutils-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstvideo-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgsttag-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstapp-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstfft-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstriff-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstsdp-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgstrtsp-1.0.so.0
What should we do? If we decide to keep liboctgui in the octave package,
we might include the following in debian/rules:
override_dh_makeshlibs:
dh_makeshlibs --package=octave --noscripts
dh_makeshlibs --no-package=octave
Any objection?
Rafael
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