Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...

To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Transition time: KDE, JACK, arts, sablotron, unixodbc, net-snmp, php, ...
From: Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:22:57 -0800
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] dk5sqa$6ra$1@sea.gmane.org> (Nathanael Nerode's message of "Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:54:49 -0500")
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Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> writes:

> The enormous ABI transitions have been particularly hard, of course.  If
> we can avoid ABI-breaking transitions in the future it would help.  :-)  I
> think we have a poor image of the effectiveness of 'testing' because *both*
> of the last two releases have had one of these monster ABI transitions. 

This makes it seem like we should *expect* such an ABI-breaking
transition.  We didn't expect that, but now we know better.

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