On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 13:14:18 +0200, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > All of the android-* packages must be updated to the latest version at the > same time. It is more unpredictable to have android-* packages at different > upstream versions since no one is running that configuration, and upstream > does not do anything to support that (e.g. no versioned ABI, etc). Therefore, > the ABI is guaranteed to be compatible since they'll all be built together. > > In practice, this means that the process of updating to the latest upstream > version has to start from the most core packages, then progress to the ones > that depend on it. > > That said, this private shared library arrangement allows for security patches > in the android shared code to be applied without having to rebuild everything. > It does require that you version your dependencies appropriately, though, so that a non-working combination is not installable.
Cheers, Julien
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