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Subject: Re: What to do and not do in third digit releases
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: 2008-09-26 23:22:03
Message-ID: 200809261722.06789.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Friday 26 September 2008, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Friday 26 September 2008 17:27:28 Sune Vuorela wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Some of you do probably not know me, while others do. I'm one of your
> > friendly debian packagers. (Occasionally, I'm also one of your unfriendly
> > debian packagers, but that's hopefully rare)
> >
> > When looking at 4.1.2 which is tagged and about to be released, there is
> > a new kind of change that we haven't earlier seen in the point releases.
> > I don't remember seing any discussions about it, so I'm bringing it up
> > here.
> >
> > The third digit releases is as far as I know bugfix only releases.
> >
> > But here in 4.1.2, there is major changes to kdegraphics, to be more
> > precise the libkdcraw library which has been rewritten and breaking ABI
> > and having a soname bump.
>
> No, something like this should not happen.
> We must revert.
>
> 4.1.2 should only be a bugfix release and should not introduce soname
> bumps.
>
> I hope the kdegraphics module coordinator can handle this.
that would be me. i'll take this issue up on the kde-graphics mailing list
first, revert it myself if necessary (hopefully it won't be) and then report
back to this list with the results.
Sune: thank you for bringing this to our attention. i've been working 16-18
hours a day on a project for the last several days, so i'm a little distracted
and completely missed this one.
many eyes do make bugs shallow... =))
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Aaron J. Seigo
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