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Re: R 3.0.0 and required rebuilds of all reverse Depends: of R



On 2013-04-23 14:23:57 +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:53:05AM +0000, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > On 2013-04-18, Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:
> > >> Oh, that's a good point.  Yes, I hadn't thought about that specific case
> > >> for testing ABI breakage in experimental.
> > >
> > > But then that simply is a broken upload. It will break horribly if you
> > > install the experimental perl but keep other perl packages from sid.
> > 
> > Welcome to experimental. Stuff might break, stuff might be deliberately
> > broken, ... 
> > 
> > I might also not properly manage abi changes in libraries in
> > experimental, especially when it is me packaging snapshots.
> > 
> > /Sune
> 
> I sure hope you mean breakages between different experimental
> versions. Not breakages compared to stable/testing/unstable versions.

You should also consider breakage between an experimental version
and a future unstable version.

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