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by lmm 42 days ago
That's what stable is for though. Like, sure, stable's policy is ludicrous and you would have to be insane to run stable. But the remedy for that isn't to try to change Debian policy, it's to get people to stop running stable. Maybe once no-one uses it Debian will see sense.
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LtWorf 41 days ago
Yep, let's all use libraries that change API every day instead. That will be more productive.
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lmm 41 days ago
The only thing worse than changing APIs is never changing APIs. Having to use APIs from 5 years ago sucks.
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LtWorf 41 days ago
Having to modify a software every few months when it could be left untouched for 5 years and keep running sucks way more :)

Not every software needs updates, and if it doesn't, just using the new name for the API all the time is useless churn.

I'm starting to appreciate java, where all my software written for java5 still works fine without a single change.

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