Xfce 4.4.1 on Monday 09-apr [WAS Re: Xfce 4.4.1 ?]

[Oliver Lehmann]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> Then what's the problem?  We're not changing the lib numbering.  The
> major/minor *library* version will remain the same; just the package
> version will change.  As long as the libutil 4.4.1 Xubuntu package hits
> your repository by the time xfdesktop 4.4.1 does, there's no problem.

Not changing the library major/minor number, but depending on the lateste
package containing the lib is baaaad. Many packaging systems are only
depending on library version numbers. When the package now depends on the
library number. The dependency is already resolved by 4.4.0. But then your
configure script wants 4.4.1 -> baaad.
When you depend on a specific version of a lib you should imho also bump
the lib. Otherwise as stated in the first mail - when no API changed you
shouldn't depend on the latest lib... it will also work with an earlier
version of the lib. Otherwise all this makes no sense and you can break
the API where you want - when you always depend on the latest library
versions - preserving the API makes no sense at all. Or?


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