4.2 in Debian, OpenSUSE, Mageia, Gentoo

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 28 August 2014 13:48:42 Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Aug 28, 2014 1:45 PM, "Tim Wootton" <tim at tee-jay.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > *    libraries whose interfaces are in flux or under development
> 
> (commonly the case when the library's major version number is zero, or
> where the ABI breaks across patchlevels)
> 
> Hmm. This certainly also covers libdivecomputer, but last time this
> discussion came up, Debian didn't like statically linking to that, AFAIK.

That's easy to solve. We just have to have Jef break binary compatibility in 
every release. :-)

Role models are OpenSSL (pre-1.0), ICU, Boost, etc.
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