Hi, I looked at the Debian packaging of rdma-core and stumbled over the versioning. You change the version of the binary library packages (libibcm1, libibumad3, etc.) from the Debian package version (currently 12-1) to their shared library versions. This change is uncommon and confusing besides other issues. [1] It is common that the package version differ from the library (soname) version. As potential Debian sponsor I would reject this package version change. The second problematic thing is that each library has its own major and minor number, but use the package version as patch level. This restricts the package version to one number which will increase fast. >From my Debian maintainer perspective, I recommend following change: Maintain two different versions, the package version and the library versions. The package version could follow the semantic versioning [2], the version schema from the kernel [3], or by date [4]. Make that version number be useful in itself. I suggest to start with version 2.0 (since 1.3.10 is the highest version that I found in one of its libraries when they were maintained separately). For the library version numbers, you could either maintain them separately (increase only if you touch that library between two releases) or maintain a common patch level (like you do now). PS: I am thinking about offering becoming a co-maintainer for the rdma- core Debian package. [1] Andrey Rahmatullin wrote in https://bugs.debian.org/850145 : "Please make sure you fully understand the consequences of using binary package versions different from the source one." [2] http://semver.org/ [3] major.minor.patch were major is increased when minor becomes too big. [4] year.${number of release of the year}.patch (e.g. 2017.1) -- Benjamin Drung System Developer Debian & Ubuntu Developer ProfitBricks GmbH Greifswalder Str. 207 D - 10405 Berlin Email: benjamin.drung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.profitbricks.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin. Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 125506B. Geschäftsführer: Andreas Gauger, Achim Weiss. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
