RFC v3: adding a temporary, non-BC gauranteed, 'private' library (was RFC v2)

[Sune Vuorela]

On 2009-06-05, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
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> Em Sexta-feira 05 Junho 2009, =E0s 11:41:28, Sune Vuorela escreveu:
>> On 2009-06-05, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
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>> > On Thursday 04 June 2009, Sune Vuorela wrote:
>> >> On 2009-05-05, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
>> >> > In order to break binary compatibility, once per minor release,
>> >> > remember to: * change the library soname, to allow installing in
>> >> > parallel
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>> >> Hi.
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>> >> Currently, knotificationitem isn't SOVERSIONed. I guess this is a bug?
>> >>
>> >> Adding to the right CMake file[1] something like
>> >> set_target_properties(knotificationitem-1 PROPERTIES VERSION
>> >>  1.0.0 SOVERSION 1)
>> >> should fix that.
>> >
>> > yes, it should be versioned. pls commit... thanks :)
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>> Committed by George Kiagiadakis in revision 977732.
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> Well, I said we needed the soname. It doesn't mean it needs soversion, but =
> it=20
> makes sense.

>From a debian-centered POV (where I'm usually looking from), we really
need a SOVERSION. The debian autodependency calculation utilities
(dpkg-shlibdeps) does not work with unversioned libraries.

/Sune