This one time, at band camp, Josip Rodin said:
> 
> Did you check if that's not some libtool-related problem?

Well, it's libtool related, but it's not accidental.  src/lib/Makefile
has what they're doing - they call libtool with --release, rather than
--version-info, which has subtly wierd semantics about the result.

> Theoretically the upstream might actually want to start shipping out
> one of those two as a real shared library, but wanting is one thing...

I think they're not interested in API/ABI compatibility across releases,
so much as having a convenience library around for the other programs in
the suite.  Since it does that, that's good enough for their purposes.
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