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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [ports] Shouldn't we rebuild all dependant packages whenever a
 library changes?
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:49:10 -0000 (UTC)
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It appears that Robin Haberkorn  <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> said:
>applications, even those that link only against plain C libraries. It's 
>rare, but you can't exclude that some minor library release breaks the API 
>- ABI is of course not a problem in C, compared to C++.

The difference between a minor and major version is that minor versions have
the same interfaces.  If the interfaces change, thaat's a major version.

It sounds like the bug is that a breaking change was shipped as a minor version
rather than a major one.

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