Lintian tag: shared-library-lacks-version

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The listed shared library in a public library directory has an SONAME that
does not contain any versioning information, either after the .so or
before it and set off by a hyphen. It cannot therefore be represented in
the shlibs system, and if linked by binaries its interface cannot safely
change. There is no backward-compatible way to migrate programs linked
against it to a new ABI.

Normally, this means the shared library is a private library for a
particular application and is not meant for general use. Policy recommends
that such libraries be installed in a subdirectory of /usr/lib rather than
in a public shared library directory.

To view the SONAME of a shared library, run readelf -d on the shared
library and look for the tag of type SONAME.

There are some special stub libraries or special-purpose shared objects
for which an ABI version is not meaningful. If this is one of those cases,
please add an override.

Please refer to Libraries (Section 10.2) in the Debian Policy Manual and
Dependencies between the library and other packages (Section 8.6) in the
Debian Policy Manual for details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/shlibs
Renamed from: shlib-without-versioned-soname

Affected packages