Package: python3.14 Version: 3.14.7-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Debian does not ship /usr/lib/<triplet>/libpython3.so, the unversioned stable ABI library that lets Py_LIMITED_API code link with -lpython3 and survive a minor version bump. Same in trixie (python3.13 3.13.5-2+deb13u4). debian/rules:891 runs "make install" from $(buildd_static), which has no --enable-shared, so PY3LIBRARY is empty there. The shared tree does build the file, but only libpython3.14.so.1.0 (rules:961) and libpython3.14-pic.a (rules:1069) are copied out of it. I am not suggesting with_interp be changed. The unversioned pkg-config files are already handled this way: libpython3-dev (python3-defaults) ships python3.pc and python3-embed.pc as symlinks to the versioned ones. libpython3.so has no equivalent. Fedora, Arch, Alpine, openSUSE and nixpkgs all ship it. Suggested fix, mirroring pkg-config: python3.X installs the stub under a versioned path, python3-defaults symlinks /usr/lib/<triplet>/libpython3.so to the default version's copy. It has to point at the stub, not at libpython3.14.so.1.0, whose SONAME would pin the version in DT_NEEDED. -- Best regards Patryk Sondej
