gEDA-dev: gEDA-announce: gEDA/gaf stable version 1.2.1-20071231 released!

Hamish Moffatt hamish at debian.org
Wed Jan 2 02:49:57 EST 2008


On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 01:22:29PM +0000, Peter Clifton wrote:
> How do packages like GTK manage these things? Is it just not possible to
> add API applications might depend upon between minor versions?
> 
> Ubuntu's GTK is package libgtk2-2.0-0, so it seems the soname convention
> isn't applied here either.

Adding new functions is ok, but changing existing ones is not. I think these
libraries just tread very carefully.

Hamish
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