On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 4:08 PM Maxwell G via devel <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > ABI incompatible updates are against the Updates Policy for stable > releases: > > > ABI changes in general are very strongly discouraged, they force > > larger update sets on users and they make life difficult for > > third-party packagers. > > -- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/#stable-releases
They are very strongly discouraged, not forbidden. In this case, a "larger update set" will not be forced on any user. It will be two packages: polymake itself, and python-jupymake. As for making life difficult for 3rd party packagers, there are no consumers of the polymake library in the package sets of the most popular third party repositories. And the new version is backwards API compatible with the old version, so even if there is some polymake library consumer out there, all they have to do is rebuild. (There are quite a few consumers of the polymake binary, but the command line is also backwards compatible, so none of them need rebuilding.) The overriding concern for me is the bugs fixed in the new release. I'll bet you a nickel that if you find some random polymake users and ask them if they want this update, they will all say yes. -- Jerry James http://www.jamezone.org/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
