boost-python should provide /usr/lib/libboost_python.so and /usr/lib/libboost_python3.so

[Toby Smithe]

boost 1.53 provides /usr/lib/libboost_python.so, pointing to -py27.so. boost1.54 does not. It would be really helpful for my development of a Python-version-independent extension if Ubuntu did like Arch Linux[1], and provided default-version symlinks for both Python 2 and Python 3. I'm using CMake, and I would like to be able to do something like

  find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS python)

or

  find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS python3)

rather than having to automatically determine whether I'm on Ubuntu and then automatically determine how to write

  find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS python-pyXY)

correctly. At the moment, I cannot do it the easier way, because the FindBoost.cmake script (in the cmake-data package) assumes (rightly) that different shared object files correspond to different Boost libraries.

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/boost-libs/files/

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: libboost-python1.53-dev 1.53.0-6+exp3ubuntu6
Uname: Linux 3.11-1.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.4-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 26 18:47:50 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: boost1.53
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-05-04 (145 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.