In the original version of "btrfs-progs: libify some parts of btrfs-progs" by Mark Fasheh, the soname field of the internal libbtrfs library was set to "libbtrfs.so.1". This doesn't match the filename of the library (libbtrfs.so.0.1) which is unusual.
However in the version which went upstream, the soname was changed to just "libbtrfs.so". There doesn't seem to be any mention of why this was changed. This soname doesn't follow the normal convention, and confuses some tools that we use in Fedora to handle shared libraries. This patch changes the soname to "libbtrfs.so.0" to match the filename and the usual convention for sonames. It would also allow a future version of this library to make breaking ABI changes by changing the soname (eg. to "libbtrfs.so.1"), but allowing callers to use either the old or the new version. Rich. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
