> On Feb 22, 2022, at 12:18 PM, Wojtek Porczyk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 09:50:25PM +0000, George Dunlap wrote: >> I think it’s too much effort to ask developers to try to find the actual >> minimum version of each individual dependency as things evolve. > > By "find the actual minimum version", do you mean to get to know the version > number, or install that version on developer's machine?
Well suppose that a developer writes code that depends on an external library. The external library on their own machine is 4.5; so they know that 4.5 works. But will 4.4 work? How about 4.0? Or 3.9? Or 2.2? Maybe it works on 3.8+ and 2.13+, but not 2.0-2.12 or 3.0-3.7. I don’t think it’s fair to ask people submitting patches to do the work of tracking down which exact versions actually work and which ones don’t actually work; particularly because... > The second part very much depends on distro, but all of them have provisions > to install older versions of packages, though not all of them might carry all > the possible versions (i.e., it might be that you need version X, Distro A has > had versions X-1 and X+1, but never packaged version X). Again, if this is > a problem, it depends on the actual package and compatibility situation. …of things like this. -George
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