Re: [ports] Shouldn't we rebuild all dependant packages whenever a library changes?

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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