Re: Binary compatibility policy for security updates and point releases

2019-03-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 10:50:04PM +0100, Gilles Filippini wrote: > Are these incompatible changes from security updates advertised somewhere? > > On a related matter we've just experienced at $work a scientific > software breakage after a recent jessie security upgrade. Jessie does not longer ge

Re: Binary compatibility policy for security updates and point releases

2019-03-19 Thread Gilles Filippini
Hi, Ondřej Surý a écrit le 17/03/2019 à 08:43 : > Jakob, > > the backward incompatible ABI changes are generally something we avoid in > stable releases. > > There might be occasional exception to the rule where it cannot be avoided, > but it is not something we take lightly. Are these incom

Re: Binary compatibility policy for security updates and point releases

2019-03-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jakob Leben: > Well, there are use cases that are not so simple. For example: I might > deploy Debian 9.1 on an embedded machine sold to a client on the other side > of the world. I have a system for updating my own software which is also > deployed on that machine, but not the rest of the Debia