shlib-without-versioned-soname lintian warning

[Devid Antonio Filoni]

Lintian reports a "shlib-without-versioned-soname" warning in libbeatbox-core.so.

From: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/shlib-without-versioned-soname.html (it contains other info about this)

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.

So if libbeatbox-core.so is a private library (I think it is ATM) you should install it in /usr/lib/beatbox. Add a SONAME if it is a public library.

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Let's install the library to lib/beatbox/

[Scott Ringwelski (sgringwe)]

i'm not sure why this is high priority, but victor, feel free to make this change.

[Victor Martinez (victored)]

Scott, you are right. I thought that debian hardening options would be enabled soon (since the bug was reported) and marked the bug as high priority. We can fix this later since it is not critical.