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.
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