* Junichi Uekawa (dancer@netfort.gr.jp) wrote: > > Exactly! :) We must have a seperate tracking of API and ABI changes. > > To do otherwise is madness. > > Hmm... I don't think Debian -dev package and > shared library packages really reflect what we consider to be > ABI/API. > > Nothing documented about that, and it's not really done in practice. > > Currently people just package libwhatever-dev and break API whenever they > please. Eh? It *is* done in practice, look at my other email wrt glib. Some upstreams are actually quite good about their APIs and just don't ever break it in a backwards-incompatible way. In those cases 'libwhatever-dev' is perfectly fine. Regardless, what you're suggesting is probably done *less* in practice, so that argument certainly doesn't hold. Thanks, Stephen
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