Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by int_19h on Saturday January 11, 2020 @07:11PM
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Semver is not a given in practice. Many libraries haven't adopted it, some of those that claim to break things in practice, and the very definition of a "breaking change" can mean different things - sometimes depending on the consumer (this is especially true for cross-language interactions).
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Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by zozbot234 on Saturday January 11, 2020 @08:03PM
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Distributions can make their own choices about versioning if upstreams "break" semver. Sometimes this results in weird version strings and you might not want to depend on these relabeled system packages for your own projects - that's the one case where "vendoring" a dependency version might be worthwhile. But it ought to be quite rare indeed.