.so version numbers for dlopen'd objects

["Paul B. Henson" <henson@acm.org>]

I'm trying to get the OpenBSD openldap port updated to use modules,
currently it just builds everything into a monolithic binary. They are
objecting to the existence of the version number in the shared objects for
the modules:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 henson henson 1773576 May 21 12:54 back_bdb-2.4.so.2.10.7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 henson henson     864 May 21 12:54 back_bdb.la
lrwxrwxrwx 1 henson henson      22 May 21 12:54 back_bdb.so ->
back_bdb-2.4.so.2.10.7

They say that shared objects which are intended to be dlopen'd, as opposed
to linked to, should not include version numbers, and it should look like:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 henson henson 1773576 May 21 12:54 back_bdb-2.4.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 henson henson     864 May 21 12:54 back_bdb.la

What is the openldap developer perspective on this?

Thanks.