Re: Road to Stretch: let's stop increasing major version number in critical libraries at this point
On Sat, Nov 05, 2016 at 11:14:02AM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Thomas,
>...
> Finally, with the above examples as illustration (and please, these
> aren't attacks in any way...), I guess what I'm trying to say here is:
>
> While disruptive changes are necessary evils so we upgrade everything to
> the latest version, I would like the Stretch freeze to be as short as
> possible. Therefore, I'd prefer if my DD friends were holding on
> upgrading to (non bugfix only) new upstream releases of libraries.
as announced many months ago, the transiontion freeze is today (sic).
This is exactly to ensure that no new disruptive library changes can
be started after today.
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>...
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Adrian
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