Hi, Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > standard libray versioning scheme is to set soname to > lib<name>.<major> (library being named lib<name>.<major>.<minor> on > filesystem) Don't get confused by the numbers, libgimp-2.0 is the library name we've choosen. There is nothing wrong with that. It's just a name. > if the a branch of a library is not compatible with the previous > one, maintainer only has to bump its major. nothing more. That's exactly what we are doing. Nothing more. Please have a look at the versioning scheme I pointed you at. It does exactly what you are suggesting. Sven
