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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 1995 13:19:30 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: shared library versioning
Message-ID:  <9503271819.AA10247@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199503271744.DAA26467@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
References:  <199503271744.DAA26467@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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<<On Tue, 28 Mar 1995 03:44:22 +1000, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> said:

>> I didn't see a bump, but as a result of this change, it should be.
> Why just for this change?  I don't want the version number bumped, I
> want more care taken to avoid having to bump it for unimportant
> changes.

Because when a new function is added to a library, the minor version
number needs to be incremented, so that users don't get confused.

-GAWollman

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