Control: tag -1 confirmed On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 09:00:40AM +0300, Nicholas Guriev wrote: > [ Reason ] > Telegram migrated from 32-bit user identifiers to 64-bit introducing > backward > incompatible changes in their API. Because of that, a version of the > package > currently in bullseye almost cases to work. > Then I was asked several times to propose an update of the package. > > [ Impact ] > Users cannot login. And the package in stable is unusable. > > [ Tests ] > This update was already uploaded to backports some time ago. And no > significant > issues have been reported about that version. > > [ Risks ] > Many. There is a huge amount of new code. But alternative would be to > delete > the package entirely. Although this is leaf package, any issues do not > affect > other software. > Unfortunate, but I guess we don't have much of a choice, so go ahead.
How often do such incompatible changes happen, historically? Cheers, Julien
