Bug#675832: lintian: false positive dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink when SONAME contains -\d+

["Stephen M. Webb" <stephen.webb@bregmasoft.ca>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.8
Severity: normal

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I am getting a false positive dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink tag for my package
because it has a SONAME libvarconf-1.0.so.7 and a recent change strip off the
"-1.0" before checking the link in the -dev package.

This false positive can be fix by reversing the order of the lines that strip
version information from $link_file in checks/shared-libs from

     # determine shlib link name (w/o version)
     $link_file =~ s/\.so.*$/.so/o;
     # libtool "-release" variant
     $link_file =~ s/-[\d\.]*\.so$/.so/o;

to

     # libtool "-release" variant
     $link_file =~ s/-[\d\.]*\.so$/.so/o;
     # determine shlib link name (w/o version)
     $link_file =~ s/\.so.*$/.so/o;

This change should still preserve the handling of libtool -release variants.

Just imagine the impact this problem will have on libgtk-3-dev.

thanks

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