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

[Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>]

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

Will this be fixed before the release of version 4.2?

Rafael