On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 10:02 AM Seth Arnold <seth.arn...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 06:45:59PM -0300, Lucas Kanashiro wrote: > > With that in mind, we, the Server team, identified the need to decouple the > > application (what users really use) and the library (what is used by rdeps) > > in a way that, on the one hand, we can keep following upstream projects > > without worrying about breaking changes and on the other hand, we keep the > > library (-dev package) stable to avoid breakages of packages sync'ed from > > Debian or already in stable releases during SRUs. > > Hello Lucas, I'm very concerned about this plan, I hope you can assuage my > fears. > > This sounds like we'll introduce a new problem, where third-party > applications built against the libraries will become incompatible with > the main application. > > If the ecosystems are changing external library ABIs too often, I can > only shudder in fear at how quickly internal library ABIs are changing. > > What gives us the confidence that the internal ABIs are actually more > stable and reliable than the external ABIs? >
Do these Go packages have ABI anyway 👀 Other applications interact with them with either cli or HTTP/GRPC API. The libraries are often changed, but I remember the cli and HTTP/GRPC API are stable and backward compatible. -- Shengjing Zhu -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
