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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:33:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) 
Message-ID:  <200102131533.KAA30494@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200102130120.f1D1KpU56194@mobile.wemm.org>
References:  <xzpd7cno08x.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200102130120.f1D1KpU56194@mobile.wemm.org>

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<<On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:20:51 -0800, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> said:

> If we had taken -current to 500, we could go to 501, 502, etc as 
> required to stop killing our developers, and prior to entering 5.0-BETA we
> go back to the next sequentially available major number (be it 5, or 6
> if RELENG_4 bumps again).

Shared library version numbers going backwards is *evil*.  Not quite
as evil as it used to be under a.out, but still evil.  Please don't go
there.

-GAWollman



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