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Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2
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Mark H Weaver |
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Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2 |
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Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:32:47 -0400 |
Hi Ludovic,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
>>> And please let us agree that in the future, we only backport fixes in grafts
>>> and do not update version numbers.
>>
>> I agree that in this particular case, that's what should have been done,
>> and that we should still try to do it. It will be several days at least
>> before I'm able to look at it, though. Would someone else like to try?
>>
>> I also agree that in general, we should be more careful to check for ABI
>> compatibility before grafting.
>
> More specifically, for libraries, we should only ever use replacements
> that are ABI-compatible. (That usually means that the major and minor
> version numbers are the same, which may be what Andreas had in mind.)
> Anything else is most likely broken.
>
> For command-line tools, I think we should only graft with replacements
> that are backward-compatible at the CLI level. That requires manual
> review of the changes, I guess.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Thanks,
Mark
- imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2, Léo Le Bouter, 2021/03/19
- Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2, Julien Lepiller, 2021/03/19
- Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2, Ludovic Courtès, 2021/03/21
- Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2, Andreas Enge, 2021/03/22
- Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2, Andreas Enge, 2021/03/23
- Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2, Léo Le Bouter, 2021/03/23
- Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2, Leo Famulari, 2021/03/23
- Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2, Mark H Weaver, 2021/03/23
- Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2, Leo Famulari, 2021/03/24
- Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2, Mark H Weaver, 2021/03/23
- Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2, zimoun, 2021/03/24
- Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2, Andreas Enge, 2021/03/27