Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> writes: > FWIW, I've done ABI-incompatible uploads of perl to experimental in the > past without changing the perlapi-* virtual package name or the libperl > SONAME. The aim was to experiment with different configuration options, > particularly 64-bit integers and 128-bit long doubles.
> I certainly didn't support upgrades from those versions to the same > extent as I'd have done for unstable. OTOH, the packages were pretty > close to uninstallable on any non-minimal systems anyway, as we didn't > offer corresponding rebuilt XS modules in experimental. Oh, that's a good point. Yes, I hadn't thought about that specific case for testing ABI breakage in experimental. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/871uasmxl4....@windlord.stanford.edu
