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Re: Octave 4.4.1 transition



Le lundi 20 août 2018 à 16:24 -0400, John W. Eaton a écrit :
> On 08/20/2018 03:34 PM, Sébastien Villemot wrote:

> > I'm wondering whether uploading to unstable a targeted quick fix for
> > #906047 would be a good idea: on one hand, it would allow fixing all RC
> > bugs before the transition is completed; on the other hand, it could
> > cause ABI issues (because 4.4.1~rc2 does not have the SOVERSION bump
> > but probably already has the ABI break, though I did not check).
> 
> Sorry about the change in SOVERSION.  We try to avoid that, but this 
> time there were some important bugs that I couldn't see how to fix 
> without making some interface changes.
> 
> If a similar situation should happen again in the future, would it at 
> least avoid some trouble if I changed the version before the release 
> candidate?

Indeed, in the present case, it would have helped if the SOVERSION had
been bumped before the release candidate.

Thanks,

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