>> I tried building this, I noticed that the installed binaries (svm-train,
>> svm-predict, and scm-scale) don't reference libsvm.so.2.  In the build
>> output, I see no header files and no libsvm.so symlink, so I don't see
>> how this library could be used.
>
> It seems that this library is in fact only used by the Python module
> which is built from the "python" subdir and for which I have prepared
> another package.  I'll remove the library building phase from this
> package and move it to the recipe for "python-libsvm".
>
> My apologies for the confusion!  I'll send an updated patch soon.

Attached are two patches for libsvm and python-libsvm (only available
for Python 3), taking the comments into consideration.