On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 at 08:29:03 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > All these APIs and dynamic libraries are meant to provide backward > compatibility.
You're asking for forward compatibility, though: making applications in testing/main limit themselves to only doing things which already worked in stable/core, and avoiding relying on new features (or new bug fixes) from testing/core. In other words, we'd be artificially imposing the platform problem <http://lwn.net/Articles/443531/>. It's hard enough to avoid that problem *already*, we don't want more of it! Core libraries (and toolchains, and the kernel) gain new features for a reason - to support better new versions of applications. (Backward compatibility is when an outdated application still works on newer libraries/kernel/other underlying components, and in general we already have that.) S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110606083622.ga28...@reptile.pseudorandom.co.uk
