Bug#1003713: bullseye-pu: package telegram-desktop/3.1.1+ds-1~deb11u2

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

Control: tag -1 confirmed

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 09:00:40AM +0300, Nicholas Guriev wrote:
> [ Reason ]
> Telegram migrated from 32-bit user identifiers to 64-bit introducing
> backward
> incompatible changes in their API. Because of that, a version of the
> package
> currently in bullseye almost cases to work.
> Then I was asked several times to propose an update of the package.
> 
> [ Impact ]
> Users cannot login. And the package in stable is unusable.
> 
> [ Tests ]
> This update was already uploaded to backports some time ago. And no
> significant
> issues have been reported about that version.
> 
> [ Risks ]
> Many. There is a huge amount of new code. But alternative would be to
> delete
> the package entirely. Although this is leaf package, any issues do not
> affect
> other software.
> 
Unfortunate, but I guess we don't have much of a choice, so go ahead.

How often do such incompatible changes happen, historically?

Cheers,
Julien