Upcoming Shibboleth-related package transition

[Russ Allbery]

"Scott Cantor" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote on 2009-07-21:

>> You're doing the right thing by not matching.  Matching is incorrect.
>> The SONAME should only increase when there are non-backward-compatible
>> changes in the API.

> Right, though I was speaking of the revision bit rather than the interface
> version. I didn't see any reason why I should bump the library to
> libname.so.1.0.3 but I wanted to make sure.

Oh, that part.  The general rule is that you should bump the second number
when you add new interfaces and the third when you make any code changes
(on Linux; this varies by platform), but so far as I know, they're not
actually used by software and therefore it doesn't matter.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>