On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:35:33 +0300, Oron Peled wrote:
On Sunday 29 September 2013 21:22:24 Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> I went ahead and generated a patch to the Makefile that uses the
> package version for the library version.
That's wrong, as library versions represent API/ABI changes and
the numbering has different *semantics* than package version numbering.
[the libtool info file has a good introduction to ABI version numbering]
The way it has been done, any minor version update would break dependencies:
$ rpm -qp --provides libre-0.4.4-5.fc20.x86_64.rpm
libre = 0.4.4-5.fc20
libre(x86-64) = 0.4.4-5.fc20
libre.so.0.4.4()(64bit)
That's the opposite scenario of "no soname", where every new upstream
release
might break the ABI/API. Which is more dangerous, if such changes are not
noticed with rpmsodiff or abi checker tools. That may not be seen as a problem
to you, however, if you plan to check new releases painstakingly.
There are no guidelines about it.