Re: Xapian 1.4.28 released (problem with SONAME)

Olly,

On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 10:10:56PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 11:14:53PM +0300, Vitaly Chikunov wrote:
> > For 1.4.27 you have LIBRARY_VERSION_INFO=43:1:13
> > For 1.4.28 you have LIBRARY_VERSION_INFO=43:0:14
> 
> Oops - I managed to update it correctly for the comment but not for the
> value actually used:
> 
>   dnl 44:0:14 1.4.28 dutch_porter alias in Xapian::Stem
>   LIBRARY_VERSION_INFO=43:0:14
> 
> > Can you fix this?
> 
> Sure - I'll make a new release ASAP.  Thanks for reporting.

Thanks. I thought this just a typo.

> 
> I think this is the second instance of this problem, though the previous
> time was 1.2.12 in 2012 so it's infrequent, but it is a pain if it
> happens.  It occurs to me that we could add a check to configure to
> catch this problem as it should only change at the start of a release
> series.  Something like:
> 
>   expr `echo "$LIBRARY_VERSION_INFO"|sed 's/:.*:/ - /'` = 30
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly