On Mit, 2003-01-08 at 22:06, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 07:20:16PM +0100, Michel D?nzer scrawled: > > PS: What does the 3 in xlibmesa3 stand for anyway? > > It's the soname; the major version of the number after .so. It's been > bumped to 4 in 4.3.
That's 1 for libGL.so.1.2, do you mean the Mesa major version? If so, will it be called xlibmesa4 in 4.3.0? And if so, why, as there's no incompatibility? :) -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast