Re: Library packaging

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

peter karlsson <peter@softwolves.pp.se> cum veritate scripsit:

> > That sounds like a bad news, a potential sign of upstream changing
> > binary interface between 0.1.0 and 0.2.0
> 
> I don't know...


The upstream may "fix the package slightly" to make 
binary-incompatible change to the library, and call it
0.3.0 (well, it's only natural).

However, in the library sense, if it is binary-incompatible,
it should have a new soname, i.e. 1.0.0



regards,
	junichi


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