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+size 4138429
diff --git a/xapian-core-1.2.8.tar.gz b/xapian-core-1.2.8.tar.gz
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-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
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-size 4106342
diff --git a/xapian-core.changes b/xapian-core.changes
index 5b877b7..40fd643 100644
--- a/xapian-core.changes
+++ b/xapian-core.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Dec 21 10:22:07 UTC 2012 - mlin@suse.com
+
+- Update to version 1.2.12
+  * 1.2.11 had its library version information incorrectly set. 
+    This resulted in the shared library having an incorrect SONAME. 
+    This release has been made to fix this problem.
+  * See http://svn.xapian.org/*checkout*/tags/1.2.12/xapian-core/NEWS
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Dec 29 11:31:53 CET 2011 - dmueller@suse.de
 
diff --git a/xapian-core.spec b/xapian-core.spec
index 54a7631..d4a6f0f 100644
--- a/xapian-core.spec
+++ b/xapian-core.spec
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 
 Name:           xapian-core
-Version:        1.2.8
+Version:        1.2.12
 Release:        0
 Summary:        The Xapian Probabilistic Information Retrieval Library
 License:        GPL-2.0
@@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ libraries for applications using Xapian functionality
 Summary:        Files needed for building packages which use Xapian
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Requires:       gcc-c++
+Requires:       libuuid-devel
 Requires:       libxapian22 = %{version}
 Requires:       zlib-devel
-Requires:       libuuid-devel
 
 %description -n libxapian-devel
 Xapian is an Open Source Probabilistic Information Retrieval framework. It