2012.02.04 15:52 "[Tiff] ready for 3.9.6 and 4.0.1", by Jay Berkenbilt

2012.02.06 20:17 "Re: [Tiff] ready for 3.9.6 and 4.0.1", by Edward Lam

On 06/02/2012 2:15 PM, Jay Berkenbilt wrote:

There should be no expectation of the software's version and the soname matching. It's quite possible that tiff 5.x and tiff 6.x could all still have libtiff.so.5. For a good explanation of all this, check out the libtool documentation.

Sure, but given the rate at which things change in libtiff, we could also have a libtiff policy of only updating the major version when the ABI changes. :)

-Edward