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Subject: Re: svn commit: r422826 - head/security/libsodium
To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, marino@freebsd.org,
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From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
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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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