Changing kernel API / Breaking VirtualBox - update criteria violation?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:09:26PM -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 07:53:12PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > No. You're simply interpreting things incorrectly.
> > 
> *sigh*  You miss the point.  I'm perfectly willing to be interpreting it
> incorrectly.  The problem is that the wording allows me to interpret in
> incorrectly.  I have gone through the policy and quoted you the sections
> that I'm reading to support my interpretation.

If you interpret "The ABI" as "Any property of the binary that another 
package could conceivably depend on" then your position makes sense. But 
since nobody would interpret it that way, the obvious conclusion is that 
"The ABI" means "The supported ABI". Attempting to codify this more 
precisely would just encourage language lawyering, which is exactly what 
we were trying to avoid when we generated this policy. Use common sense.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org