On 5/18/08, Andres Mejia <mcitadel@gmail.com> wrote: > openal-soft would change the soname to libopenal.1 instead of libopenal.0. Is > testing for ABI-incompatibilities still necessary in such a case? No, though if there are no ABI incompatibilities, then the SONAME should stay the same. If it was upstream that incremented the SONAME, however, then it's safe to assume that the ABI has been broken.