Hi, On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 10:21:24PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org> [2002-11-18 21:06:17 -0700]: > > > > That may be, but there are still a surprising number of unique version > > numbers being used in the shlibs for glibc: > > > > wakko{jgg}~#apt-cache dump | grep "Depends: libc6" | sort -u > > [...15 lines of depends deleted...] > > > > I don't know for certain, but I find it hard to belive that so many > > minor debian versions are changing binary compatibility in any way at > > all. > > Changing the version number does not mean that they *did* change > compatibility. It only means that they *might* have changed it. How > are you to know in a concrete and automated way? Whatever happened to: minor version number change - binary compatible, major version number change - source compatible or not compatible at all? Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | emile@e-advies.info tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 | http://www.e-advies.info
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