Even Rouault <even.roua...@spatialys.com> writes: >> Not 100% sure I followed, but: If you change the shlib major > number, >> you have changed the ABI, even if the symbols are the same. > > Yes, but the reasoning is actually the reverse: the (C++) ABI has > changed, so given libgdal contains both a C and C++ API, we > have to bump th shlib major number.
What I menat is that in the text of NEWS, you should not say that the C ABI is unchanged. A "ABI has not changed" statement implies that one can swap in the new binaries without rebuilding any depending packages. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
