Bug#503833: reassign, patch link

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2008-11-06 dann frazier <dannf at dannf.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 08:33:08PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
>> I am reluctant
>> to go immediately to unstable since it requires a shlibs bump due to
>> an added function.

> I definitely wouldn't call myself a shared lib packaging expert, but
> does adding a function really break the ABI? It shouldn't break
> backwards compatibility, and anything newly built that may use the new
> function should automatically get a versioned runtime dependency.
[...]

Hello,
I totally agree with you on that point, sorry if I seemed to suggest
otherwise. 

However I probably would not upload even just a shlibs bump (not a
soname bump) without consulting the release team currently to
unstable, since it would block dependencies from propagating to lenny.
cu andreas

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