You wrote:

> Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> writes:
> 
> > If you bump the ABI, is there any reason to keep backwards
> > compatible functions?
> 
> The ABI will break, but I'm also considering source-level "API"
> compatibility. Which isn't an all-or-nothing issue; different
> applications use different subsets of the API.

Sure.  If it was easier, one would want to for example build all
reverse-dependencies in Debian using an updated Nettle to see what
percentage of packages break and how... but this is not that simple to
do.

/Simon
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