On Tue, 6 Dec 2016, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > issues. if a package often breaks the compatibility and isn't security > sensitive, then maintaining more than one version is probably more > efficient (jgoodies and guava fall into this category).
What is “security sensitive”? I’d not dare to put numbers to such a denomination. No idea whether maintaining several versions is really worth it. I mean, jgoodies looks upstream-dead, so this is a good argument in favour of both ⓐ maintain multiple versions of our own ⓑ package the last version of it, maintain that, and patch all applications to use it (and we expect no further/new breakage, because there will be no new upstream version) bye, //mirabilos -- tarent solutions GmbH Rochusstraße 2-4, D-53123 Bonn • http://www.tarent.de/ Tel: +49 228 54881-393 • Fax: +49 228 54881-235 HRB 5168 (AG Bonn) • USt-ID (VAT): DE122264941 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Stefan Barth, Kai Ebenrett, Boris Esser, Alexander Steeg
