[Aptitude-devel] aptitude 0.6.6-1 available on mentors.d.n

[Daniel Hartwig]

On 27 March 2012 04:14, David Kalnischkies
<kalnischkies+debian at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 17:47, Daniel Hartwig <mandyke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have taken care that the multi-arch code is compatible but not yet
>> thoroughly checked all the API changes which may impact aptitude.
>
> We usually do not change the functional part of the API in a backward-
> incompatible way as it just means too much work for everyone.
> So if you find differences to unstable, it's more likely to be a bug in
> libapt you should report rather than adept to in aptitude.
>
> (your abi/api breaks are usually of the "we added a new member to an
>  internal struct/new parameter breaking function pointers/added new
>  method making yours with the same name ambitious" type and not of
>  "we agreed 3 years ago to a spec, but we don't give a damn now" …)
>

This is good to know.

>
> That said, reading the changelog doesn't hurt of course. :)
>

Sure doesn't.  My immediate focus will be on the 0.8.16 changes.  I
know there are some older changes where aptitude is causing problems
(#613775, for example) and will get to those as well.


Bye