[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 1/2] avutil/version: Mention similarities and differences to semver

[Michael Niedermayer]

QUESTION: is this the best place for this ?

Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
---
 libavutil/version.h | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libavutil/version.h b/libavutil/version.h
index b2dffb7..7692def 100644
--- a/libavutil/version.h
+++ b/libavutil/version.h
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@
  * Useful to check and match library version in order to maintain
  * backward compatibility.
  *
+ * The FFmpeg libraries follow a versioning sheme very similar to
+ * Semantic Versioning (http://semver.org/)
+ * The difference is that the component called PATCH is called MICRO in FFmpeg
+ * and its value is reset to 100 instead of 0 to keep it above or equal to 100.
+ * Also we do not increase MICRO for every bugfix or change.
+ *
  * @{
  */
 
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2.9.2