diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ce95e2e2..04772d70 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-10-20  Bastien Nocera  <hadess@hadess.net>
+
+	* configure.in: fix the library versioning to be hand-made rather
+	than uber-calculated from some esoteric numbers
+
 2003-10-20  Bastien Nocera  <hadess@hadess.net>
 
 	* glibtop.h:
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 09f6af23..98a55f91 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -7,12 +7,14 @@ AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
 
 LIBGTOP_MAJOR_VERSION=2
-LIBGTOP_MINOR_VERSION=0
-LIBGTOP_MICRO_VERSION=5
+LIBGTOP_MINOR_VERSION=5
+LIBGTOP_MICRO_VERSION=0
 LIBGTOP_VERSION=$LIBGTOP_MAJOR_VERSION.$LIBGTOP_MINOR_VERSION.$LIBGTOP_MICRO_VERSION
 AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(libgtop, $LIBGTOP_VERSION)
-LIBGTOP_INTERFACE_AGE=5
-LIBGTOP_BINARY_AGE=5
+
+LIBGTOP_CURRENT=1
+LIBGTOP_REVISION=0
+LIBGTOP_AGE=0
 
 # you can set this to `-snap' for instance to create
 # a `libgtop-1.x.y-snap.tar.gz' tarball.
@@ -36,10 +38,10 @@ AC_SUBST(LIBGTOP_VERSION_SUFFIX)
 
 # libtool versioning
 LT_RELEASE=$LIBGTOP_MAJOR_VERSION.$LIBGTOP_MINOR_VERSION
-LT_CURRENT=`expr $LIBGTOP_MICRO_VERSION - $LIBGTOP_INTERFACE_AGE`
-LT_REVISION=$LIBGTOP_INTERFACE_AGE
-LT_AGE=`expr $LIBGTOP_BINARY_AGE - $LIBGTOP_INTERFACE_AGE`
-LT_VERSION_INFO='-version-info ${LT_CURRENT}:${LT_REVISION}:${LT_AGE}'
+LT_CURRENT=$LIBGTOP_CURRENT
+LT_REVISION=$LIBGTOP_REVISION
+LT_AGE=$LIBGTOP_AGE
+LT_VERSION_INFO="-version-info ${LT_CURRENT}:${LT_REVISION}:${LT_AGE}"
 AC_SUBST(LT_VERSION_INFO)
 AC_SUBST(LT_RELEASE)
 AC_SUBST(LT_CURRENT)