setting SOVERSION to 5

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 25 February 2014 08:04:16 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> On Monday 24 February 2014 20:23:25 šumski wrote:
> > On Monday 24 of February 2014 16:13:48 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > ...
> > 
> > > Shall I do this change to the frameworks?
> > 
> > My opinion as a fellow packager is - please don't. IMHO, now that the
> > versioning is fully correct, it would be really weird to have soversion 5
> > at version 4.97.0
> 
> Yes I agree there.
> 
> Please don't. The early versioning at 5.0.0 we had for the tech preview was
> a mistake, it's been caught and fixed, so let's keep doing things properly
> now following proper versioning.

But, I think Jonathan is right for the SOVERSION.

Imagine you have libattica.so.4 for the kde4 version (random example, might 
not match reality).

The kf5 version should be libattica.so.5, even in alpha/beta versions.
You don't want it to conflict with libattica.so.4 during alpha/beta phase, and 
then suddenly jump to libattica.so.5.

libattica.so.5 with a "public version number" (in headers, packages etc.) of 
4.96.0 sounds right to me.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5