Bug#842919: transition: xen
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 00:25:38 +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Hrm. I looked at xenwatch and python-pyxenstore and though the source
> packages Build-Depend on libxen, the binaries Depend only libxenstore
> whose ABI version and package name have not changed. So I think,
> then, that there is actually no need to recompile those two, although
> it would probably be best to do so as a precaution (in case the ABI
> has unwittingly changed, in which case it would be somewhat better for
> stretch to be internally consistent).
>
Actually, if the ABI silently changed, it's better to detect it rather
than work around it with rebuilds, so avoiding binNMUs is preferred.
Cheers,
Julien
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