From: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
Subject: Re: NEW: devel/intel-gmmlib
To: Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org>
Cc: Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>, ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:21:45 +0200

Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org> wrote:
> On Sat Jul 13, 2024 at 11:25:16AM GMT, Klemens Nanni wrote:
> > Source/GmmLib/CMakeLists.txt has upstream's .so version, so I'd put 12.3
> > into the SHARED_LIBS comment.
> 
> I don#t care about the comment version. I don't see the use-case.

Sometimes it is useful at update time.  You can see the previous
upstream version and compare to the one after the update as a hint to
see whether it needs a major bump or not.  Of course it's only a hint,
but can be useful.

Unfortunately more and more projects are using as the so version the
project version which is completely useless.