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Re: Why are new package versions depending on libc6 in unstable?



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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