Slop seems to provide a shared library without having a proper SONAME or
ABI in the package name and bumping the library made at least "maim" to
fail to work:

maim: error while loading shared libraries: libslopy.so.7.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

From my point of view, it is an error of slop to provide a shared
library but not having a proper library package with proper SONAME or
ABI version in the package name.

In case you disagree, please do not provide a shared library at all and
do compile this library directly into the binary "slop".

I agree, this is a long-standing bug in the package, and a lintian
warning I have consistently (and incorrectly) ignored.

I would be happy to take whatever fix you think is best for this. The
package is in salsa.debian.org/debian and i'm LowNMU.

I think my main blocker is fixing this is that I am not super familiar
with shared libs packages. It also seems a little silly to have a shared
lib for something that's essentially called by other packages (although
now it seems that maim does use it as a shared lib).

The other problem is introducing a shared lib would make us go through a
round trip in NEW, but hopefully that should be trivial enough to be
fast.

Anyways, thanks for the bug report, and definitely something that needs
fixing. In the meantime I think a binNMU might fix this on maim's side,
right?

a.

Hello, please find as an attachment a patch to fix #1012190 and #981703
and close them.

Best regards,			Georges.

tags 1012190 + patch
thank you

Hi,

thanks for the patches.

I am note sure they work though, see my comments below...

I don't understand why this is necessary. #1012190 should be closed
automatically when 7.6 migrates to testing, it's already marked as fixed
in unstable, deliberately.

libslop7.5 doesn't exist as far as I know, why is that necessary?

shouldn't the shlibs:Depends do the right thing here?

i should also note that the bug to fix here is #1009010 and it's going
to be fixed once 7.6-2 passes NEW (which it entered yesterday).

i'd rather have that merged in when upstream does that release, instead
of carrying that local patch...

[...]

could you submit this upstream?

thanks.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
slop, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1009010@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> (supplier of updated slop package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:15:38 -0400
Source: slop
Binary: libslopy-dev libslopy7.6 libslopy7.6-dbgsym slop slop-dbgsym
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 7.6-2
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>
Changed-By: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>
Description:
 libslopy-dev - queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to st
 libslopy7.6 - queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to st
 slop       - queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to st
Closes: 1009010
Changes:
 slop (7.6-2) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * split out shared library in new binary packages (Closes: #1009010)
   * update debian/copyright to cover for missing files, thanks Thorsten
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