On 10/21/2014 05:12 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> So, dear fellow DDs, I'm asking you: each time you see that an upstream >> author is breaking an ABI on a package you maintain, write an email to >> him/her, and explain how much this is bad and shouldn't happen. If the >> Unix community starts to realize how much we're loosing by breaking >> ABIs, I'm sure the situation will improve. > > Why?
I explained extensively why in my post. Re-read it, and let me know which part you didn't understand... :) > OpenBSD’s libc.so major number is 50 or something like that right now, > because they – correctly – increment it on every incompatible change. The correct thing to do is to not do incompatible change. > This is not a problem because, you know, we have Open Source, so we > can always just recompile everything against the new libraries. Wouldn't it be better to "just" upgrade to the new lib? Recompiling is a major pain and a loss of time/resources which could be avoided. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/544a17ee.5040...@debian.org
