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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Wireshark ABI stability 1.6.4 -> 1.6.5

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:20:00 -0800
On 1/12/12 9:06 AM, Gerald Combs wrote:
> On 1/12/12 1:59 AM, Balint Reczey wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure that it is the proper approach.
>> We don't have to update the library version if there is no change in the
>> lib.
> 
> The libtool documentation says "If the library source code has changed
> at all since the last update, then increment revision (‘c:r:a’ becomes
> ‘c:r+1:a’)." We update

[ hit "send" too soon. ]

We update the code in epan and wiretap in every release, which means the
revision number should be incremented for libwireshark and libwiretap,
correct?