> > add a versioned requires. (libcurl.so.4()(64bit) → libcurl.so.4()(64bit) >=
> > 4.8.0).
>
> The whole point of sonames is that it's NOT tied to versions but the soname
> abstraction, and this kind of dependency breaks that point.
I can think of one real-world case this would have broke: the SDL ->
sdl12-compat transition. While _now_ the version numbers are ahead, they
weren't initially. This would have caused way too much pain to deal with.
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