Sure, but by the same token I would not upgrade from sl4fj 1.5.x to
1.6.x (on the assumption that that introduces an incompatibility)
between hibernate 3.3.1 and 3.3.2.  

The same needs to apply here.  commons-annotations needs to maintain a
level of compatibility within a release series.
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Steve Ebersole
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On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 19:20 -0400, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
> On  Mar 23, 2009, at 09:31, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> 
> > 1) If commons-annotations *does not* rely on hibernate-core in any way
> > then I'm fine to break it it back out if that makes sense.  However
> > y'all need to be *extremely* careful about this and making sure about
> > compatibility.  The whole idea about moving these things back together
> > was to make the compatibility "matrix" more manageable.  Making
> > incompatible changes in dependency common to core/annotations/em and
> > search effectively makes those things incompatible as well.  Same for
> > integrating it into annotations.
> 
> Right but commons annotations should really be considered at the same  
> level as slf4j.
> All Hibernate projects do share slf4j but Search and Validator are  
> independent of core (release wise and even to a certain extends at  
> runtime).

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