Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 10:46 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
No, it is an artifact of wildly changing APIs. That was just an obvious example. The same applies to apache/perl/python and just about every other package versioning.
But upstream chanced those APIs, and isn't upstream always right?
Even if it is right in the long run, the point of a distribution is to to protect its users from mid-release breakage. If I wanted the upstream version as-is every day, I'd download it directly myself. I expect a distribution to not break compatibility with what it packaged and shipped yesterday.