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Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE TODO
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On Wednesday 04 August 2004 10:43 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 10:21:01AM +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 01:43:54 -0600 (MDT)
> >
> > Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > >  | Source upgrade     | Not done    | David Schultz | problematic. The 
> > >  |   | incompatibility    |             |               | 5.3 world
> > >  | sources   |
> > >  |
> > >  |                    |             |               | must be buildable 
> > >  |                    |             |               |  | and installable
> > >  |                    |             |               |     | from a 5.2.1
> > >  |                    |             |               |        | system.  
> > >  |                    |             |               |           |
> >
> > 	Should they not also be buildable and installable from a 4.10 or 4.11
> > system in order to preserve the -stable upgrade route ?
>
> I believe this item is not about builds/installs, but about the API
> compatibility of libm.so.

s/API/ABI/

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