Why do all of the generated libraries for libtbb and libtbbmalloc store the SONAME in the metadata as libtbb.so.12 (on glnxa64)?

[tcormackMW]

I am running into some problems in my build and use of tbb as a result of the shared libraries generated by tbb all storing libtbb.so.12 as their SONAME (as opposed to their respective names -- libtbb.so, libtbb.so.12, libtbb.so.12.14) -- for example:

I understand this has been used in the past as a way to ensure that linker lines don't have to change and the versioned libraries will be referenced, however I don't understand the need for this given that tbb by default outputs 3 libraries (on linux and mac) that symlink to each other.

$ readelf -a libtbb.so
.....
Dynamic section at offset 0x3b878 contains 30 entries:
Tag Type Name/Value
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libstdc++.so.6]
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libgcc_s.so.1]
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libc.so.6]
0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [ld-linux-x86-64.so.2]
0x000000000000000e (SONAME) Library soname: [libtbb.so.12]
.....