[kde-frameworks-devel] Re: setting SOVERSION to 5

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 03:29:16PM +0100, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Beside I still don't see a clear motive behind that change (Jonathan hinted at 
> helping with packaging but it looks like not all packagers agree).

It needs packaging changes whenever the soversion changes which means
errors can be introduced and it'll take longer to package.  The RC and
final release should have minimal changes, not major ones like
soversion changes.

Jonathan