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From:
Allison Randal
Date:
April 9, 2012 03:11
Subject:
Re: sound distribution practices
Message ID:
4F81C741.1070301@parrot.org
On 04/08/2012 10:01 AM, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:
> 
> The parrotapi-* thing would avoid an update of the parrot package, but there's
> nothing that would avoid an update of, say, libdata-dumper-parrot, and it would
> leave the system with an older version of parrot and a newer version of the
> bytecode library, which, as Patrick pointed out, are not compatible. If the
> library depends on parrotapi-* too, it is not updated until every other
> parrotapi-* reverse dependencies are ready to be updated.

Then +1 to updating all the binary packages that contain compiled
bytecode, with a Depends on parrotapi-*.

Allison
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