Re: Polymake soname bump

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On Mon Dec 19, 2022 at 15:56 -0700, Jerry James wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 3:54 PM Maxwell G via devel
> <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon Dec 19, 2022 at 14:10 -0700, Jerry James wrote:
> > > If all goes well, I will do the same for F37.
> >
> > I don't think this soname bump should happen in a stable release.
>
> Because ... ?  The new version is backwards API compatible (although
> not ABI compatible) with the previous version, I'm going to rebuild
> the only consumer of the library, and the new version fixes bugs.
> What is your objection?

ABI incompatible updates are against the Updates Policy for stable
releases:

> ABI changes in general are very strongly discouraged, they force
> larger update sets on users and they make life difficult for
> third-party packagers.

-- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/#stable-releases

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