Hello,
The otb currently has all lib* packages ending with a version number.[1]
Here is a patch in ITK[2] which allows to generate shared libraries without version library suffix. Having this patch included in the next release of OTB 5.4.0 would be great. I would be glad to push this into the debian/patches and later to OTB upstream.
Before that, does this allow to bypass the new queue for each version of OTB release?
IMHO, ITK packaging should have used it and split libraries into different packages. So that OTB could depend on the "minimum" ITK modules rather than dragging the whole toolkit.