library sonames

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jani Monoses wrote:
> hello
> 
> I see that sonames of libxfce4util and libxfcegui4 have been bumped for 
> beta (and util after beta1 too) even though they were already different
> from those in xfce 4.2, having been incremented at the beginning of the 
> 4.3 cycle. Why was this necessary? For specifying library version 
> requirements during 4.3 development the libraries symbolic versions such 
> as 4.3.90 should suffice.
> 
> More importantly can this change again in the following weeks?
> It makes following development bumpier as all packages need to be 
> rebuilt all at once, and in case of debian/ubuntu package names changed 
> too preferably, to reflect the new soname.
> 
> the libtool versioning doc which Olivier linked too in the previous 
> thread I opened on this subject, recommends only updating sonames right 
> before release
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual.html#Updating-version-info

Well that article gives the explanation already: "Increment current
whenever interface gets added, removed or changed". For the recent
libxfce4util bump, that's the version bump for beta2 already, as the
interface will not change anymore.

> Jani

Benedikt