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From: Nico Schottelius <nico.schottelius@ungleich.ch>
To: maxice8 <thinkabit.ukim@gmail.com>
Cc: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: Implement versioned names for major libraries to ease upgrade
 process
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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:16:01 +0100
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Good morning,

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.
> [...]

if we are already doing that, why do we not do it for the linux kernel?

Cheers,

Nico



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