Re: propose repo nomenclature

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 09:17:19AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> But the osabi package is about things like lsof and kmem grovelers.
> Are you saying that not only would the normal ABI be stable, but the
> internal ABIs that are normally not supposed to be used?

I think so - but it may depend on what execat "hidden" apis you 
have in mind here.

> If so, we should perhaps change the whole notion to be (for branches),
> basically some set of values leading up to the first release (maintained
> how?), and then all succeeding forms of netbsd-8 being considered
> equivalent.

The basic idea is to keep strict binary upward compatibility. A pkg
build for 8.0 has to just work on any later netbsd-8 installation.

We do not enforce compatibility in the other direction though.

Martin