Hi Paul, On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:13:56PM -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: > All the different versions numbers make my brain hurt!
It'll be better soon. ;-) > What is the relationship, if any, between the version number of the source > pachage and the version number of a library, which has to do with SONAME. Library versions are described in http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-sharedlibs.html Versions at large are covered in http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version including the description of where source/upstream version number goes and what the debian_revision is. > What do these have to do with PACKAGE_VERSION in autotools? That should be upstream's version in the source for most if not all cases. > My up stream, has version number associated with his source tarballs, > that have nothing to do with debian or Linux, because he does not develop > with Linux in mind. All though he does build a Linux static library. There's a number of upstreams that don't target Debian but still have their source distributed with it. The general rules (like version numbers always increment) still apply though. -- Best regards, Kilian
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