Re: obsoleting shlibs - what's the plan

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:25:24AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
 > All this only happens, when you do an upgrade to the base system.
 > In my experience I have to rebuild many packages (i.e _all_ due to
 > very limited update handling in pkgsrc) after I upgrade the base
 > system to another release. Now you have to do it also when you upgrade
 > a -current system after a large subsystem was changed. I don't consider
 > this a problem or even worth this discussion.

I beg to differ... breaking backwards compatibility for old binaries
*is* a problem.

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David A. Holland
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