On 2020-10-23 15:32:48, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 03:27:23PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > If we want to support the interim versions that have never been in a > > stable release, then I think the only way is to bump the minmum > > version in liburing shlibs and symbols files to 0.7, then rebuild the > > couple of packages built with 0.6 against 0.7, and then add Breaks in > > liburing against the old dependent package versions using the previous > > liburing releases. > > Well, seemingly there are people who run old sid, and then only > “apt update ; apt install plocate” -- which will pull in newer plocate > but not liburing1 :-)
Yes, but those people know (or should know) that this is somewhat risky, always. I do that sometimes, but I'm not surprised when things do break. > But all that _must_ be supported as per Policy is upgrades from stable to > stable, I believe? Not entirely sure how strict it is. It helps that > liburing1 has never been in stable (only stable-bpo). +1 here, stable-to-stable should be enough.
