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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:54:35 -0700
From:      Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-projects@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r289692 - projects/zfsd/head/lib/libdevdctl
Message-ID:  <562825BB.7090401@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <1542570.1xCFep8lJG@ralph.baldwin.cx>
References:  <201510211244.t9LCipMj060521@repo.freebsd.org> <49854328.Q4auaItPMj@ralph.baldwin.cx> <20151021225047.GA22651@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <1542570.1xCFep8lJG@ralph.baldwin.cx>

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On 10/21/2015 4:47 PM, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday, October 22, 2015 12:50:48 AM Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 09:52:34AM -0700, John Baldwin wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 12:44:51 PM Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>>> Author: bapt
>>>> Date: Wed Oct 21 12:44:51 2015
>>>> New Revision: 289692
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/289692
>>>>
>>>> Log:
>>>>   Change SHLIB_MAJOR to 0
>>>>  =20
>>>>   The lib hasn't been released yet so need to start having a first v=
ersion with .so.5
>>>>  =20
>>>>   Sponsored by:	Gandi.net
>>>
>>> OTOH, this means more work in the future as any system-wide shlib bum=
ps have
>>> to bump this manually.  I think it is best to just use the default sh=
lib major
>>> for new libraries.  The extra maintenance load in the future isn't wo=
rth having
>>> a .0 IMO.
>>>
>> Right, but why is the default starting at .5 that does not sound right=
 to me?
>> any explaination I missed?
>=20
> There's a global at lib/Makefile.inc that re@ has bumped on each major =
release=20
> (in the past), and is currently at 5.  It hasn't been bumped since 8.0 =
actually
> since we are now more selective about bumps, but that does explain why =
it is 5
> instead of 0.

Auto bumping it without justification from ABI changes sounds odd.  I'm
glad it is not now.  Symbol versioning should be used instead where
possible as well as the benefits are greater for compat, as you know.

>=20
> This is the distribution of versions in /lib and /usr/lib currently on =
my 10-stable
> desktop:
>=20
> % ll /lib/*.so.* /usr/lib/*.so.* | awk -F. '{ print $NF }' | sort -n | =
uniq -c
>    6 0
>   12 1
>   11 2
>    7 3
>   15 4
>   47 5
>   22 6
>    8 7
>    6 8
>    1 9
>    4 10
>   13 11
>=20


--=20
Regards,
Bryan Drewery


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