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by nemith 3036 days ago
> This doesn't define for whom it must be backwards compatible. Breaking changes are not all created equal. Semver is a pessimistic measure. You bump the major version if a change could break at least one user, in theory. In practice, most "breaking" changes do not break most users.

I think this mean API breaking usually resulting in packages that won't even compile.