From: Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org>
Subject: Re: NEW: devel/intel-gmmlib
To: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
Cc: Klemens Nanni <kn@openbsd.org>, ports <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 14:34:10 +0200

On Sat Jul 13, 2024 at 02:21:45PM GMT, Omar Polo wrote:
> 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.

To be honest, a "hint" is neither useful nor helpful. Ultimately, you
have to verify it yourself with check_sym.sh.

It is an artefact from better times. (maybe)

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

This is what I see, too!