Re: pcp updates - last piece of debian packaging changes for this round

[fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [...]
> <rant>
> probably because the developers of libmicrohttpd follow the open
> source view (unlike the sgi irix 6.5 view) that breaking the API/ABI
> is fine and to hell with backwards compatibility, which I'm guessing
> prevents backporting to older distros and leaves them stuck with older
> versions of the library
> </rant>

I really don't get the impression that this is the case with
libmicrohttpd.  While they don't go to the full ABI-compatibility sort
of efforts related to symbol versioning etc., I am not aware of any
API breakage over the time.

Instead of those folks, you might consider poking the debian packagers
in question to see if they had considered moving to a newer version,
and if not why.  For that matter, why do they ship only pcp 3.3.3, or
systemtap 1.2 for oldstable.

- FChE