On 2025-10-27, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2025 at 10:49:44AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
>> On 2025-10-26, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> > I've prepared an NMU for m4api (versioned as 0.3~0.9646fd-3.1) and 
>> > uploaded it to DELAYED/2. Please feel free to tell me if I should
>> > cancel it.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Go ahead and upload directly, if you wish,
>
> Thanks, done.
>
>> and please also commit to
>> git, although the patch is so small it shouldn't be hard to do so after
>> the fact if that is more than you want to bother with.
>
> There is already an unrelated commit in git, and different maintainers 
> have different preferences how to deal with that when integrating an
> NMU into git.
>
> Handling this kind of workflow differences is what I do not want to 
> bother with.
>
> And then there's all kind of other "fun" you run into when looking at 
> maintainer git trees, like when the contents of a tag for the previous 
> upload does not match what is in the archive.

Fair!

I have merged your changes into git in the with my (hopefully not
terribly) idiosyncratic workflow. :)

>> My mind baffles a little at what "minimum supported version" even means
>> if you need to bump it with no other changes, but that is a question for
>> cmake... :)
>
> Similar to for example debhelper compat levels or "use" in perl, this is 
> a potentially breaking change.
>
> There were some compatibility policies with older CMake versions where 
> the old behaviour is no longer supported.
>
> It seems to rarely break in practice, but I do see the point of it.

Sure. It has probably been spitting out all sorts of deprecation
warnings for ages that have gone largely ignored, but I am still
surprised at the hard failure! :)

live well,
  vagrant

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