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

[Kevin Ottens]

Hello,

On Tuesday 25 February 2014 14:32:27 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> 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.

OK, but then the said change is either in the packaging or in our own cmake 
files as we'd have to drop the SOVERSION later on when our version becomes 
5.0.0. So it's really a question of which is more error prone.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud supporter of KDE, http://www.kdab.com

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