[Development] QtMultimedia BIC / header cleanliness issue

[Koehne Kai]

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> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Martin Sandsmark
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 3:38 PM
> To: development at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Development] QtMultimedia BIC / header cleanliness issue
> 
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:56:27PM +0100, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > this isn't about a cover-up, but about not making a fuss about a
> > virtual non-event (no pun intended). changelog entries, etc. are ok
> > (like for any bugfix), while changing the soversion seems just a bit over the
> top.
> 
> Why is bumping the so-version a lot of fuss?

It makes the file name out of line with the other .so file names. There's a good chance that this will break some deployment scripts which do just cpy "lib*.5.so" ... Question the other way round: What do we gain from bumping the version, except for the feeling that we've 'done the right thing"? I understood that the chances anyone really running into this bc are miniscule.

Regards

Kai