[PATCH libICE] Bump the major version

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Thu May 12 16:19:43 UTC 2016


On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 14:27:48 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:

> With previous commits we've hidden a selection of internal symbols from
> the DSO. Neither of them has been part of the API, although let's do the
> sane thing and bump the major, as we might have changed things in a
> backward incompatible way. I.e. we might have unintentionally broken
> some applications.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
> ---
> Funny story... seems that the SONAME still uses the non-modular X
> version (and it hasn't been bumped since the split) while configure uses
> fresher numbers.
> 
> Leaning that we should bump at least the SONAME one, although I've did
> both just in case ;-)

Very much against bumping SONAME.  If you think that's needed as a
result of these patches, then please rethink whether these patches are a
good idea.

Cheers,
Julien


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