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by lucb1e 3264 days ago
Indeed.

If you change the output of "ls", you know everything that uses ls will break and you can bump a major version. But if you change e.g. the date format to include a timezone (visible when -l is specified), does such a change really warrant a major version bump? It's just a minor change but it might still break things. Or maybe if you refactor some stuff in curl, the curl-dev package might suddenly be incompatible with something that depended on it.