libcdio/libcddb (was: Re: Fedora Extras 4 Package Build Report)

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Jul 28 16:39:00 UTC 2005


Michael Schwendt (bugs.michael at gmx.net) said: 
> Are we permitted to break ABI/API in updates or only for the next
> release of the distribution?
> 
> How do we handle ABI/API breakage generally?

In Core it's *greatly* frowned upon to break the ABI in updates;
it's better to save it for the next release.

There are, of course, exceptions (the mozilla libs are the usual
ones.)

Bill




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