Re: why are new upstream versions of glib being uploaded?
* Thomas Bushnell BSG (tb@becket.net) [061227 07:11]:
> On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 21:59 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > You asked for the release team's input into whether to upload the new
> > upstream version, and Luk replied with an explanation that was consistent
> > with the release team's position on the matter: new upstream versions and
> > uploads including changes that don't qualify for freeze exceptions are
> > considered risky and therefore discouraged. But you don't actually need the
> > release team's permission to upload to unstable, and it's not anything we're
> > going to get into an argument over with maintainers that make such uploads
> > as long as there aren't ABI-breaking changes that will interfere with
> > getting necessary updates into etch for other packages.
>
> And yet, glib in unstable now obviously exports a slightly different
> interface than the one in testing (the changelog notwithstanding).
You mean they changed the ABI without an soname change? That sounds
really bad, yes.
Cheers,
Andi
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