Re: library soversion

2001-06-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:40:28PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote: > I have a library package at version 2.01, and the soversion in it is 0.0.0 > (seems upstream hadn't heard about library versioning). Now, I'm > considering packaging a new upstream version (2.3.4, still in prerelease > though), but they

Re: library soversion

2001-06-13 Thread mdanish
Please read the libtool info files. Library versions != Source versions. Library versions are dependent on binary-compatibility, or should be, and this is fully documented in the package 'libtool-doc' in the section on Versioning. And then forward the information to upstream so that they know, as

library soversion

2001-06-13 Thread Ove Kaaven
I have a library package at version 2.01, and the soversion in it is 0.0.0 (seems upstream hadn't heard about library versioning). Now, I'm considering packaging a new upstream version (2.3.4, still in prerelease though), but they *still* haven't heard about library versioning, so compiling the new

Re: library soversion

2001-06-13 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:40:28PM +0200, Ove Kaaven wrote: > I have a library package at version 2.01, and the soversion in it is 0.0.0 > (seems upstream hadn't heard about library versioning). Now, I'm > considering packaging a new upstream version (2.3.4, still in prerelease > though), but they

Re: library soversion

2001-06-13 Thread mdanish
Please read the libtool info files. Library versions != Source versions. Library versions are dependent on binary-compatibility, or should be, and this is fully documented in the package 'libtool-doc' in the section on Versioning. And then forward the information to upstream so that they know, a

library soversion

2001-06-13 Thread Ove Kaaven
I have a library package at version 2.01, and the soversion in it is 0.0.0 (seems upstream hadn't heard about library versioning). Now, I'm considering packaging a new upstream version (2.3.4, still in prerelease though), but they *still* haven't heard about library versioning, so compiling the ne