Was the soname bump for 1.0.1 intended?

[rgacogne]

As far as I can tell it was not necessary, and will require a rebuild of all packages depending on hiredis. So while it's likely not possible to revert that for 1.0.1, it would be nice to avoid the soname bump for the next security-only releases :)

[michael-grunder]

I did erroneously bump the SONAME, and you're right it wasn't required. I'm half tempted to just update the GH tag but I can't do that if anyone has already packaged based on the tag.

[rgacogne]

Thank you for the quick reply!
Yeah, I agree that while very tempting it's probably not a good idea to move the tag. I'm tempted to patch the sources in Arch Linux (packager here, hello!) to avoid the soname bump, do you have any opinion on that?
On the other hand I could completely suck it up and rebuild the 7 packages that depends on hiredis at the moment, but that seems a bit wasteful.

[michael-grunder]

I'm tempted to patch the sources in Arch Linux

That's fine with me, but I've done very little Linux packaging (hence the erroneous SONAME bump 😄). v1.0.1 is completely backward-compatible with v1.0.0.

[rgacogne]

Understood, thank you!