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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Please bump SONAME when removing library symbols.","articleBody":"At the moment the library SONAME version is 0.  To work well in a Linux environment with programs linked to the shared library, the library should change SONAME version every time a non-backwards compatible change is done.  One example like this is the removal of symbols.\r\n\r\nWhile working on updating sqlcipher in Debian, I discovered that several times between the current Debian release 3.4.1 and the latest version 4.5.5 backwards compatibility was broken without changing the SONAME.\r\n\r\nTo update the SONAME, the -version-info \"8:6:8\" statement in Makefile.in need to be updated, and the diff between the first and third number need to increase.  At the moment the SONAME version is 8-8=0, while in the new version in Debian I plan to move to 9:6:8 to get 9-8=1.\r\n\r\nhttps://tracker.debian.org/sqlcipher","author":{"url":"https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen","@type":"Person","name":"petterreinholdtsen"},"datePublished":"2023-11-09T07:30:30.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":12},"url":"https://github.com/488/sqlcipher/issues/488"}