[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.1.0 RC2 available

[Greg Troxel]

Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> writes:

>> Not 100% sure I followed, but:  If you change the shlib major 
> number,
>> you have changed the ABI, even if the symbols are the same.
>
> Yes, but the reasoning is actually the reverse: the (C++) ABI has 
> changed, so given libgdal contains both a C and C++ API, we 
> have to bump th shlib major number.

What I menat is that in the text of NEWS, you should not say that the C
ABI is unchanged.   A "ABI has not changed" statement implies that one
can swap in the new binaries without rebuilding any depending packages.