The goal is to ensure that all released and supported pacakges can never reach an unstable state. When a large number of packages is affected, the name change and conflicts may be used (or a false soname bump) to ensure that there is no problem, and that no packages are missed. When a small number of packages is involved, sometimes the migration is handled without such changes. When upgrading to 7.10 from 7.04, updated libhunspell, firefox, and openoffice.org-core packages will all be delivered simultaneously, so that a user of either release should never encounter this situation.
I'm not sure you're mistaken, just that practice is sometimes different than theory. The final solution may well include a change to package names. -- libhunspell-1.1-0 1.1.5-6: Incompatible ABI change https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/111940 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
