Package: libopensc2 Version: 0.11.13-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 8.2
The libopensc2 package currently contains several unversioned files, including onepin-opensc-pkcs11.so, opensc-pkcs11.so, pkcs11-spy.so in /usr/lib, and ..profile files in /usr/share/opensc/ directory. The package should ideally contain only versioned libraries (libopensc.so.2, libpkcs15init.so.2, and libscconf.so.2). The unversioned files in libopensc2 package will eventually conflict with libopensc3 package when upstream releases a new version of opensc. According to upstream's release schedule this should happen very soon: There is already a -rc1 out which bumped soname. It would be very good if you could split out the unversioned files into a separate package to make sure we'll have a smooth upgrade path to libopensc3 in the next Debian release. I would suggest a split with the following scheme: opensc-tools: /usr/bin/* libopensc: /usr/lib/*.2* opensc-pkcs11: /usr/lib/*pkcs11*.so, Currently packages which dlopen() any of the pkcs11 modules are depending on versioned libopensc2 package. This is wrong; it will be hard to maintain proper upgrade paths. It would be cleaner if these packages could instead depend on the unversioned opensc-pkcs11 package. Quoting from Debian Policy Manual, section 8.2: "If your package contains files whose names do not change with each change in the library shared object version, you must not put them in the shared library package. Otherwise, several versions of the shared library cannot be installed at the same time without filename clashes, making upgrades and transitions unnecessarily difficult." -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages libopensc2 depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-6+squeeze1 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libltdl7 2.2.6b-2 A system independent dlopen wrappe ii libopenct1 0.6.20-1.1 middleware framework for smart car ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-2 SSL shared libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime libopensc2 recommends no packages. libopensc2 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
