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Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:16:40 -0600
From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/graphics/libwmf Makefile pkg-plist
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:13:15PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<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.

I'm not sure that applies to the packages upon which libwmf depends.
But even if it did, it is still foolish to ignore the version numbers.
One doesn't know whether the major version was bumped gratuitously or
not.

Cheers,
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