OK, I agree, it is hard to believe, but:

abuild@kusansky:~/rpmbuild/BUILD/mpdecimal-2.5.1/libmpdec> readelf -a libmpdec.so.2.5.1 |grep SONAME
 0x000000000000000e (SONAME)             Library soname: [libmpdec.so.3]
abuild@kusansky:~/rpmbuild/BUILD/mpdecimal-2.5.1/libmpdec>

As Jan Engelhardt has pointed out in the meantime, mpdecimal just does the same as the pari package here.

To my understanding (but I can be wrong of course) the library real name has no effect if the soname is set explicitly during linking.

That said, this issue has also led to raised eyebrows at Debian, so perhaps I'll do something about it in the next mpdecimal release.

We could of course rename libmpdec.so.2.5.1 to libmpdec-2.5.1.so for openSUSE, if you prefer that.

Matej Cepl (mcepl) - about 3 years ago

author source maintainer

No, I think we can keep it as it is. Somebody pointed to great precedent:

~$ l /usr/lib64/libc.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 12 20. čen 19.52 /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.33.so*
~$