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Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> Roland Lutz wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Dec 2020, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via 
>> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>>> You need to encode the *actual* minimum required dependencies in
>>> configure.ac, not what your particular testing environment uses.
>> How do I know what the "actual" minimum required version of a dependency 
>> is?
> It's the first version where all used APIs are available and functional.
>
> When inheriting a project it may require unmanageable effort to determine
> those for all used APIs, in thaitt case it's a good strategy to at least only
> ever bump required versions in commits which add some code that uses an API
> not available in the previously required version.
>
> The various GNOME projects are good at documenting first-available-version
> in their API documentation, but sometimes it sadly does become neccessary
> to search for that first version manually, when adding code which uses an
> API for the first time in a project.
>
>
> //Peter
>
Ideally yes. But in the interests of simplicity I would say that someone
at some point had what was considered a good reason to set the required
versions where they were, and things have been building without issue
with those version numbers. So set them back to where they were and then
only increase them when/as  necessary, and we can all go back to working
on what we were doing before this kerfuffle started.

IMO a bug release is *not* a good place to be increasing dependency
versions, unless it is to fix a bug. A dependency upgrade should be a
minor version increase at the least since it means the code is no longer
backwards compatible. JMO

Glenn