On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Jan Nijtmans <jan.nijtm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> at (1): Supporting every SQLite 3.7.x release is madness, > SQLite 3.7.17 is more than 7 months old now, that should > be enough time for whatever distribution to upgrade to it. > That depends on what other packages are using SQLite and how important the distro maintainers think the the other packages are. Even when the upstream devs of a library assert the ABI has not changed, the distro maintainers tend to be quite conservative about when to update libraries. This is because even if the ABI has not changed, the results returned may have changed in a way that breaks something else. The best way to encourage distro maintainers to stay more up to date with a library is for the library devs to also provide an exhaustive regression suite that the distro maintainers can use. And, when the results of any of these tests change, provide detailed explanations as to why the results changed. (I have, in the past, talked to a few distro maintainers. Also, my company's validation testers demand our (product engineering) test reports so they can better understand the changes we made.)
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