libspandsp vs. libspandsp2

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 01:31:09PM +0100, Björn Boschman wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I wanted to know the reason why spandsp 0.0.6~pre12 is generating a
> libspandsp2.

Because the SONAME of the library is 2 (libspandsp.so.2).

This follows upstream.

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> I know upstream is using the minor version field so therefor it should
> be libspandsp6 already.

In the past there were previous interface (both ABI and API) changes of
upstream that did not involve an SONAME bump. The Debian packaging
independently bumped the SONAME. At some point upstream started
providing a more stable interface and packaging shifted to using
upstream's SONAMEs.

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