On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Dominick Samperi <[email protected]> wrote:
> The odd thing about this is that to upper bound a package that you did > not write (like base) you would have to know that incompatible changes > were coming in subsequent revisions, or that features of the API that > you rely on will be changed. > There is a versioning policy covering this. It has been found to be necessary because otherwise people who try to build packages find themselves with broken messes because of the assumption that any future version of a package is guaranteed to be compatible. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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