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Re: to bump or note to bump



Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost> writes:

> So, the point of all this blather is even though there have been no
> interface changes as a result of my work there is the potential for a
> significant visual change.  Should I mark this with a libcurses major
> bump? I don't think it necessary but I am putting it out there for
> discussion...

In packaging, I generally find that ABI bumps cause more work/problems
than people expect.  It feels to me like what you did was a bugfix, and
any program that relied on the old behavior is buggy.  So I lean to no
bump, and if something else needs fixing, so be it.

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