> The way you want will make prosody-modules break when someone start
> to
> use lua-socket from stretch-backports.

Well, stretch-backports should not have gotten an API update during
freeze either.

> The unix socket API is not stable nor documented yet [1], being tied
> to an API that we know will change on buster is not very solid
> either.

Sorry, I don't understand. It's definitely documented enough that
people use it. API changes happen fairly frequently, that's part of the
reason why we need a freeze.

> Will look at a fix inside lua-socket (preserving both

That would be the best solution, agreed.

> compatibilities), but please relax your rules to help find a fix for
> all cases.

I'm not making the rules, I'm just here arguing the point because I
happened to stumble into it. :)

Michael
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