Debian concordance

[John Skaller]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 21:50 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:

> No, it doesn't call it anything different, or incompatible.

I get conflicts .. heck, it tried to uninstall the system
C library on me. Thats all I can tell you at the moment,
I'm working from memory.. (I don't want to try it again, 
it was too scary .. :)

> If sid has 2.3.5 (which I think it does), and Hoary 2.3.2 (which it
> definitely does), it does mean that you can't mix and match sid and
> hoary packages, because things have changed too majorly.  

Huh? How can this be? 

My understanding is: 

When the patch level changes the library is not allowed
to change 'majorly'. A binary that runs with 2.3.2 must
run with 2.3.5: library upgrade is required to be transparent
over the patch level. Multiple versions with distinct minor
version numbers are distinct at run time and can co-exist.

Do you know what the problem is?

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