#1152362 opentelemetry-cpp: libraries are not so-versioned, which hides them from shlibs:Depends

Package:
opentelemetry-cpp
Source:
opentelemetry-cpp
Description:
OpenTelemetry C++ SDK library
Submitter:
Felix Moessbauer
Date:
2026-10-28 15:01:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1152362#5
Date:
2026-10-28 14:59:15 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

the shared libraries that provide the public interface of the otel cpp
are currently not versioned but shipped as plain .so files. By that,
shlibs:Depends cannot automatically resolve the dependencies to the OTEL
libraries, resulting in downstream packages that miss it.

It also makes updates of the package hard, as no so version means the
package versions have to be pinned by each user.

I'm further wondering, why the library package is not called
libopentelemetry-cpp.

Best regards,
Felix Moessbauer