[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#754583: ABI=4

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Resurrecting an old thread.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 9:09 AM, DCMTK Team <bugs at dcmtk.org> wrote:
> Hi Mathieu,
>
>> I did upload your latest snapshot to debian we'll see how it goes:
>> https://ftp-master.debian.org/new/dcmtk_3.6.1~20140617-1.html
>
> thank you!
>
>> SOVERSION was set to value of 4, while no official release ever did
>> set the value to 3 (dcmtk 3.6.0 was set with a SOVERSION of 2). Was it
>> intended ?
>
> Yes, it was intended and, actually, version 3 was used for the previous
> snapshot. We decided to increase the SOVERSION for each snapshot _and_
> release, because DCMTK snapshots are some kind of small releases :)
>
> The problem is that we cannot guarantee ABI compatibility between snapshots
> and some users (even companies) use the snapshot versions for their
> programs/products since they are pretty stable...

Actually there is still an issue. You've bump the SOVERSION without
changing the VERSION. Which is illegal AFAIK:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754583

It is non-conventional to change the SOVERSION when the VERSION does
not change. Please update VERSION to 3.6.2 (or anything different from
3.6.1).

Regards