[Matroska-devel] Incompatible API changes between libebml 0.7.7 and 0.8.1?

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am Freitag, den 04.06.2010, 11:30 +0200 schrieb Cristian Morales Vega:
> 2010/6/4 Moritz Bunkus <moritz at bunkus.org>:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > great links, thanks for those. Here's what we decided to do:
> >
> > 1. We generally aim for binary compatibility and increase LIBRARY_SO_VER
> > in the Makefiles if a release isn't binary compatible. The naming scheme
> > in LIBRARY_SO_VER will not be changed, only the version increased on
> > incompatible releases.
> >
> > 2. The next release of both libraries will have the version number 1.0.0
> > in order to indicate the binary incompatibility.
> >
> > 3. The LIBRARY_SO_VER of both libs will be libxyz.so.2 in case any
> > distro is already using libxyz.so.1 for the current release. Just to be
> > safe.
> >
> > 4. The new release should be out this weekend.
> >
> > Everyone OK with this?
> 
> Perfectly Ok for openSUSE.

I think it's perfectly OK for Debian, too. Most probably a little bit
too late for the next stable release, though. :/

 - Fabian