Change SOVERSION from full version to major version

[benthetechguy]

I'm packaging this library for Debian right now. The only change I need to make is that SOVERSION is supposed to just be the major version. The library will still be built with the version in VERSION, but with a symlink to the version in SOVERSION.

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