In commit 1763633 (post v1.8.0), the SOVERSION for the libraries was set to 1. This matches the old versioning for v1.7.8 (autotools). However, many symbols seems to have been switched from C to C++. Because the symbols are now different, does that require that the SOVERSION be increased to 2 since the libraries are no longer truly backwards compatible?
In commit 1763633 (post v1.8.0), the SOVERSION for the libraries was set to 1. This matches the old versioning for v1.7.8 (autotools). However, many symbols seems to have been switched from C to C++. Because the symbols are now different, does that require that the SOVERSION be increased to 2 since the libraries are no longer truly backwards compatible?