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Re:Volta by jiofih on Monday May 03, 2021 @01:37PM (#27028124)
Semantic versioning was supposed to prevent breaking changes. I guess this is more akin to package-lock.json then.
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Re:Volta by charlespierce on Monday May 03, 2021 @01:50PM (#27028299)
Yeah, conceptually the setting is intended to be closer to a lockfile than a semantic version.

Additionally, even with semantic versions, `engines` is often specified as something like `12 || 14 || >= 16`, so they span multiple major versions, which is where breaking changes can (and do) show up.

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