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Subject: Re: [PATCH] distro: automake: Update to 1.12.6
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:19:35 +0100
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Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

>> For Automake, I don=E2=80=99t think it makes sense, though.  Or did you =
have
>> anything special in mind?
>
> Dependencies.  For instance, you're updating Foo that requires Bar.
> (There is Bar-41 in the repo, but this version of Foo requires 42.
> Also, Bar-42 has some backward incompatible changes.)  If you update Bar
> to 42, it will break other packages.  I suggest to keep three versions:
> the latest version, second-to-last, and third-to-last.

I don=E2=80=99t understand what you mean.  There can be as many different
versions of Automake as you want in the user=E2=80=99s store, and they will
happily coexist.

But that doesn=E2=80=99t mean that the distro itself should keep providing
several versions.  This is a completely orthogonal question.

Or did I misunderstand something?

Ludo=E2=80=99.