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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 19:32:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874kh1jvid.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ft0mhsjl.fsf@gnu.org>

Hi Ludovic,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> skribis:
>
>> Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> writes:
>>> And please let us agree that in the future, we only backport fixes in grafts
>>> and do not update version numbers.
>>
>> I agree that in this particular case, that's what should have been done,
>> and that we should still try to do it.  It will be several days at least
>> before I'm able to look at it, though.  Would someone else like to try?
>>
>> I also agree that in general, we should be more careful to check for ABI
>> compatibility before grafting.
>
> More specifically, for libraries, we should only ever use replacements
> that are ABI-compatible.  (That usually means that the major and minor
> version numbers are the same, which may be what Andreas had in mind.)
> Anything else is most likely broken.
>
> For command-line tools, I think we should only graft with replacements
> that are backward-compatible at the CLI level.  That requires manual
> review of the changes, I guess.

I wholeheartedly agree.

      Thanks,
        Mark


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-23 23:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-19  9:40 imagemagick@6.9.11-48 to graft or not to graft with 6.9.12-2 Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-19 11:12 ` Julien Lepiller
2021-03-21 14:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-22 10:53   ` zimoun
2021-03-22 16:55   ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-22 10:29 ` Andreas Enge
2021-03-22 21:12   ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-23 13:34     ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-23 17:42       ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-23 14:07     ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-23 23:32       ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2021-03-23 14:22     ` Andreas Enge
2021-03-23 14:38       ` Léo Le Bouter
2021-03-23 17:45         ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-23 23:05           ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-24  4:12             ` Leo Famulari
2021-03-23 23:42       ` Mark H Weaver
2021-03-24 10:15         ` zimoun
2021-03-27 15:48         ` Andreas Enge

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