Re: GNOME xdg-app runtime doesn't follow the jhbuild modulesets

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On tor, 2016-05-12 at 12:10 +0200, Sébastien Wilmet wrote:
>  
> But there is a big difference between the libraries present in the
> runtime and the bundled libraries: the libraries in the runtime are
> regularly updated to the latest micro versions to include bug fixes,
> translation updates, etc. If the library needs to be bundled to an
> application, the packager ideally needs to frantically update the
> xdg-app each time there is a new micro version of one of the bundled
> libraries. If there is an almost automatic way to do that, it would
> lessen the maintenance burden on the packager.

That is not something you should rely on. Any library update in the
runtime stands a great risk of accidentally breaking ABI, so its more
likely that unless there are specific problems that the runtime will
*not* get updated for micro versions of libraries.

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