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rvaser / spoa

SIMD partial order alignment tool/library
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SOVERSION is something else than version of the software #14

Closed tillea closed 3 years ago

tillea commented 5 years ago

Hi, I have packaged spoa for Debian and intend to upgrade the package to your latest upstream version 1.1.5. I realised that your are simply re-using the version of the software as soversion. This is not how soversion should be dealt with. It should only be bumped in case of an ABI change and if a new version does not change the ABI the soversion should stay the same. While I realised that there is actually an ABI change (there are some symbols missing) I will simply stick to this to not derive from your code too much. But in case you will release a new version of spoa without any ABI change (ABI changes should be restrictet to those that are really necessary anyway) I'd recommend to stick to soversion 1.1.5 and for the next ABI change I'd recommend soversion 2 (or something like this). Kind regards, Andreas.

rvaser commented 5 years ago

Thank you for the clarification Andreas, will keep it mind next time!