[7277] in testers
Re: gimp still broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jul 18 12:07:44 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050718155938.GZ5158@multics.mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:06:42 -0400
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On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 11:59 -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
> I'm still confused about why it's ok for the 9.4 release to break
> 9.3 binaries. Could someone address that?
Athena releases have often broken smallish numbers of locker binaries.
Backwards compatibility is not an absolute guarantee.
In this case, I wouldn't have upgraded gettext if I had known about the
soname bump, but since that bridge has been burned, it seems like
rebuilding the affecting locker binaries is better than continuing to
maintain an older version of gettext in the source tree.
