Xapian 1.4.28 released (problem with SONAME)

[Olly Betts]

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.

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