Upcoming Shibboleth-related package transition

[Russ Allbery]

"Scott Cantor" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> writes:

> So that I don't screw anybody up here, I'm working on makefile and
> packaging issues right now that may result in some version bumping but
> in some cases no code changes. log4shib is the main example at the
> immediate moment.
>
> I assume it's not a problem if the package version increases without a
> change to the library version/soname provided by the package?

Nope, that's fine, and even preferred.

> I don't like the apparently common practice of matching library versions
> to package versions, but if there's a problem not incrementing them I
> suppose I can live with it...

You're doing the right thing by not matching.  Matching is incorrect.  The
SONAME should only increase when there are non-backward-compatible changes
in the API.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>