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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:05:49 -0600, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> said:

> I object.  Shared libraries have version numbers for a reason.  This
> seems foolish to me.

Unfortunately, many developers these days have no idea what this
reason is, and frequently increment the version number even when no
interface changes would require it -- typically so that it matches
their idea of the package revision.

-GAWollman


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