On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 01:42:20PM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > Thinking it over some more - I think Gordon's right that I hadn't > considered all the language - I think my personal opinion would be that > the policy should be adjusted to be less opinionated on this idea of > "introducing features", and concentrate more on "unexpected changes to > the user experience". There are a lot of cases where introducing > features is entirely benign, after all. If a CLI tool I use grows a > useful extra option while still supporting all the ones it had before > and behaving in the same way when using those, that just does not seem > like something to be concerned about. I'd happily send such an update > to stable. > > If the update *removes* some existing argument, or changes the > behaviour of one, that's much more significant. > > This is really kinda the rule about API/ABI changes, only for > applications, in a way. Adding new functions to a library doesn't > change the API, only removing or changing the behaviour of existing > ones.
I agree. I think this is something we have in the past for gui things called 'changes in the user experence'. But yeah, we could clarify this better. FWIW I think some cases were grandfathered in when the policy was first aadopted. firefox and kde for sure. I know I requested a exception for calibre. The policy is also a bit unclear (or just wrong as written) saying exceptions need to file for every update or can be just 'you have an exception for this package/collection of packages unless something changes'. kevin
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