Commit a746ae91 authored by pross's avatar pross

give additional use case for version bumping; remove no longer true statement about version strings

git-svn-id: file:///var/local/repositories/ffmpeg/trunk@14470 9553f0bf-9b14-0410-a0b8-cfaf0461ba5b
parent 447dbcf8
......@@ -898,11 +898,12 @@ should also be avoided if they don't make the code easier to understand.
@item
Remember to check if you need to bump versions for the specific libav
parts (libavutil, libavcodec, libavformat) you are changing. You need
to change the version integer and the version string.
to change the version integer.
Incrementing the first component means no backward compatibility to
previous versions (e.g. removal of a function from the public API).
Incrementing the second component means backward compatible change
(e.g. addition of a function to the public API).
(e.g. addition of a function to the public API or extension of an
existing data structure).
Incrementing the third component means a noteworthy binary compatible
change (e.g. encoder bug fix that matters for the decoder).
@item
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