two crashes

[John Marino]

On 11/7/2014 22:34, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> The ABI for package purposes can be a little confusing during release
> time.  The release is 4.0 but the current 'master' (now 'after' the
> release) is 4.1.  For ABI purposes we round up to the nearest even
> number so the current 4.1 master will look for '4.2' packages.  6 months
> from now the current master will, in fact, become 4.2.  It's easier to
> manage the binary repo and the mirrors and allows us to do continuous
> package builds without having to juggle too many different names.  Each
> binary package set is ~60GB or so.
> 
> Maybe I over-engineered it :-)

This is a blue moon issue.
We were expecting the release to be 3.10, not 4.0.  The 3.10 packages
had been in places for 5 months.  The transition from 3.9 to 3.10 would
have been seamless.  Even when we switched to 4.0, the 3.10 packages
were only a couple of days old.  But with the change to 4.0, we didn't
have any packages, and the RC was released before we had an opportunity
to build them.

So it's only a problem at 4.0, 5.0. 6.0, and it's an avoidable problem
on our side.

John