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Subject: Re: Implement versioned names for major libraries to ease upgrade
 process
From: Rasmus Thomsen <oss@cogitri.dev>
To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:30:23 +0100
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Hello,
On Sat, 2020-12-12 at 11:16 +0100, Nico Schottelius wrote:
>=20
> Good morning,
>=20
> maxice8 <thinkabit.ukim@gmail.com> writes:
> > [...]
> > This is already done for llvm which breaks API and ABI every MAJOR
> > release so we keep llvmN and llvmN+1 and remove llvmN once all
> > packages are switched over to use llvmN+1.
> > [...]
>=20
> if we are already doing that, why do we not do it for the linux
> kernel?

Because maintaining multiple kernels is a lot of work because they're
released relatively often and we have to rebuild all modules (e.g. zfs)
against new kernel versions.

Regards,

Rasmus Thomsen

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