repository breakage

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

> Today's issue is about how closely one follows upstream in Extras.
> This will always be a problem in Extras unless Extras moves to a
> point-release model like Core.  Extras is "rolling" with no policy
> with regard to how static libraries should be through an Extras
> release timeframe.  The more frozen libraries are, the easier it is to
> avoid these types of problems, but you lose the ability to track
> upstream library development closely in time.

Yep.  I think it's an evolutionary thing.  Is running a closure check
daily, and then fixing issues promptly, sufficient for now?  I think it
probably is.  But this debate will come up again, surely.

--g

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