dev-pkg-without-shlib-symlink lintian warning for libtool library using -release & -version-info
To deal with the external usage of liblwgeom built from the postgis
sources, the upstream developers now use the -release libtool option
along with -version-info to better support installation of multiple
postgis versions.
The -release option was added to support the multiple version use case
on Windows, for the Debian package the shared library approach with
-version-info is sufficient.
Before PostGIS 2.2.0 the SONAME for liblwgeom used to include the full
upstream version (e.g. liblwgeom-2.1.8.so), for 2.2.0rc1 it briefly used
the liblwgeom.so.2 SONAME.
Lintian currently warns about the missing symlinks from
liblwgeom-2.2.so to liblwgeom-2.2.so.2.2.0, because libtool only creates
the liblwgeom.so (and liblwgeom-2.2.so.2) symlink.
Am I correct in my assumption that this is a false positive?
The libtool manual seems to suggest that this is the expected and
correct behaviour, but lintian expects liblwgeom-2.2.so instead of
liblwgeom.so which may just be a naive assumption.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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