On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 04:39:32PM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 8/24/20, G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If we can get the PS-and-PDF-font-embedding situation worked out, maybe > > that would merit a version bump to 1.23, > > Does GNU in general, or groff in particular, have hard and fast rules > about what level of change warrants bumping which element of the > version number? The next groff release will already change the > interpretation of some undelimited \s arguments (commit 0b9aaca0), > which has the potential to affect some back compatibility. By the > strictest reading of the rules of semantic versioning > (http://semver.org/), this requires bumping the major version number.
groff hasn't generally done semver for this sort of relatively limited potential compatibility break, but I certainly think we shouldn't be scared of bumping the minor number. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
