Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 01:45:05PM -0500, Aaron Conole wrote:
>> Also, FYI (and this is sortof a side-note) the libtool ABI versioning
>> information hasn't changed since 2014;  bumping / managing that may
>> become an additional release burden if we start building on top of it,
>> and expect to ship it around.  Imagine an install of this python package
>> from ovs 2.7.0 and a future openvswitch package 3.0.0; they currently
>> both see libtool version tag of 1:0:0
>
> Should we bump the libtool version now?  We're nearing a release, so
> it's about the right time.

Sorry for the late response.  I think it's probably appropriate to bump
at least the libtool 'age'.  I'm not sure what kinds of ABI changes have
happened since introduction though - the interface 'major' version may
need to change.

> libtool version numbering rules:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/Updating-version-info.html

Thanks for the refresher.  It's always a pain to remember which field
means what in the libtool parlance.

-Aaron
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