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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] Library policy query: What do we do when SONAME	includes both major and minor? (Re: [changelog] [RPM]	cauldron core/release kdelibs4-4.9.0-2.mga3)</H1>
    <B>Olivier Blin</B> 
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<PRE>Pascal Terjan &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">pterjan at gmail.com</A>&gt; writes:

&gt;&gt;<i> So it's seems like this was done deliberately due to a ABI breakage a
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> while ago:
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> <A HREF="https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/attica/repository/revisions/ac2270b1f9c445fd39e48051b99d35d9b9693a34">https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/attica/repository/revisions/ac2270b1f9c445fd39e48051b99d35d9b9693a34</A>
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Now, this is an interesting point (regarding our lib policy) bumping the
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> major for an API change and the minor for an ABI change seems kinda
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> sensible to me. So how should we deal with that in our policy? Just use
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> 0.4 as the &quot;major&quot; value here as Christiaan suggested?
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</I>&gt;<i> A minor change is supposed to only add interfaces and be backwards
</I>&gt;<i> compatible, that's why it is not in the soname.
</I>&gt;<i> If there has been an ABI breakage, the major should be incremented.
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If the ABI change occurs in a development or unstable version, it is
normal to break it without bumping the major.

Is this attica release considered stable?

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Olivier Blin - blino
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