Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Dom, 2006-04-23 às 01:37 +0200, Kurt Roeckx escreveu: On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:10:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: The currently library seems to be libgtkdatabox-0.2.4.so.7.0.0 and has an soname of libgtkdatabox-0.2.4.so.7. I guess the the new one will have something like

[Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I'm the maintainer of libgtkdatabox-0.2.3.0-0. Until now there was no request for an update of the upstream version and I had personal reasons to stay with an outdated version. Now I was asked to package the latest version and the library is probably not important enough to keep different

Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Joe Smith
Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm the maintainer of libgtkdatabox-0.2.3.0-0. Until now there was no request for an update of the upstream version and I had personal reasons to stay with an outdated version. Now I was asked to package the latest

Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Joe Smith wrote: Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I'm the maintainer of libgtkdatabox-0.2.3.0-0. Until now there was no request for an update of the upstream version and I had personal reasons to stay with an outdated version. Now I was

Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:10:35PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: Hi, I'm the maintainer of libgtkdatabox-0.2.3.0-0. Until now there was no request for an update of the upstream version and I had personal reasons to stay with an outdated version. Now I was asked to package the latest version

Re: [Help] Versioning of a library

2006-04-22 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm the maintainer of libgtkdatabox-0.2.3.0-0. [...] My guess is that there is an ABI change involved and thus I have to rename the package to libgtkdatabox-0.5.2.0-X . My question is: What is the right choice for 'X' if I skipped several upstream