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>libdbi utilizes <A
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>This is the number of the current interface. The first "incarnation" is usually 0 (zero), the next version that adds or subtracts something from this interface would be 1 (think of new API functions or functions with altered parameter lists).</P
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>This is the number of previous interfaces that the current version is backwards-compatible with. That is, if <CODE
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>The package version number (major.minor.patch) is computed from the above numbers using the formulas:</P
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>patch = revision</P
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>The correction applied to <CODE
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