On Sat Jul 13, 2024 at 02:21:45PM GMT, Omar Polo wrote: > Rafael Sadowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat Jul 13, 2024 at 11:25:16AM GMT, Klemens Nanni wrote: > > > Source/GmmLib/CMakeLists.txt has upstream's .so version, so I'd put 12.3 > > > into the SHARED_LIBS comment. > > > > I don#t care about the comment version. I don't see the use-case. > > Sometimes it is useful at update time. You can see the previous > upstream version and compare to the one after the update as a hint to > see whether it needs a major bump or not. Of course it's only a hint, > but can be useful.
To be honest, a "hint" is neither useful nor helpful. Ultimately, you have to verify it yourself with check_sym.sh. It is an artefact from better times. (maybe) > > Unfortunately more and more projects are using as the so version the > project version which is completely useless. This is what I see, too!
