Pascal Terjan <pter...@gmail.com> writes: >> So it's seems like this was done deliberately due to a ABI breakage a >> while ago: >> >> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/attica/repository/revisions/ac2270b1f9c445fd39e48051b99d35d9b9693a34 >> >> Now, this is an interesting point (regarding our lib policy) bumping the >> major for an API change and the minor for an ABI change seems kinda >> sensible to me. So how should we deal with that in our policy? Just use >> 0.4 as the "major" value here as Christiaan suggested? > > A minor change is supposed to only add interfaces and be backwards > compatible, that's why it is not in the soname. > If there has been an ABI breakage, the major should be incremented.
If the ABI change occurs in a development or unstable version, it is normal to break it without bumping the major. Is this attica release considered stable? -- Olivier Blin - blino
