[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#822701: Bug#822701: Bug#822701: samtools: FTBFS: UNEXPECTED PASS: Task worked when we expected failure;

[John Marshall]

On Mon, 2 May 2016 21:54:49 -0700 Afif Elghraoui <afif at debian.org> wrote:
> This seems to happen with every htslib upgrade in the past few releases.
> bcftools builds have also been breaking as a result and I was a little
> confused. Aren't backwards-compatibility breaks supposed to be indicated
> by soname bumps? Or is this because samtools, bcftools, and htslib are
> all maintained by the same group, so they rely on the unstable internal
> interfaces?

Afif, please explain these comments if you would like upstream to listen to you in future.

In fact we take htslib API/ABI compatibility very seriously.

Regards,

    John

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