[wtallis]

If the dependency is packaged separately, then you typically wouldn't expect minor version changes in the dependency to affect the contents of the package being built. If there are major changes to the header files being exported or if there's static linking involved then changes are to be expected. But if not, you'd expect the changes to show up in the dynamically linked process image, not the on-disk package.

[noselasd]

It really doesn't take big changes to a library that makes the relocation table of an executable linking to it be a tad different