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Date:      Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:12:26 -0500
From:      John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
To:        Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, marino@freebsd.org, Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r422826 - head/security/libsodium
Message-ID:  <76924a34-5c32-29c6-51e9-443187fa8f48@marino.st>
In-Reply-To: <db82e62a-b828-5dba-ec81-58e214873b78@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201609271943.u8RJhXe0061946@repo.freebsd.org> <6d763b2f-0745-9f7a-c94e-b9653174bdd5@marino.st> <f67dca1b-3249-fca0-2113-ac440dd4346e@FreeBSD.org> <b23328e4-1adb-177d-5e88-e43588c56a1b@marino.st> <2acdea56-9c02-4ea9-943c-7a5091ca49ab@FreeBSD.org> <005d1679-6e3c-c09b-0bc5-0fd123330ae4@marino.st> <db82e62a-b828-5dba-ec81-58e214873b78@FreeBSD.org>

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On 9/27/2016 17:07, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> Le 28/09/2016 à 00:03, John Marino a écrit :
>
> How would bug fixes not propagate ?
>
> You know what a .so is, right ?
>
> If something gets fixed in libfoo.so.1.2.3 and it previously was bad in
> libfoo.so.1.2.2, then the fixed function gets in libfoo.so.1.2.3, and
> everything using it will get the fixed function.

How about static versions of these libraries?

My question stands: Why is there a trend to avoid bumps at all costs?

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