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It really depends on whether the bug is in API or not. If it is not, it is likely that upgrading only the shared library is enough.

• convolvatron 4y ago
  How lovely to live in a world where api contracts are absolute and complicated internal behaviors never conflict in unforeseen ways. We’ve really gotten on top of the software complexity problem
  • hedora 4y ago
    That's exactly the problem deb files and apt solve (via integration testing and documenting antidependences.)
  • arinlen 4y ago
    > How lovely to live in a world where api contracts are absolute and complicated internal behaviors never conflict in unforeseen ways. Some libraries managed to preserve API contracts throughout the years just fine. Even in C++, a language which does not establish a standard ABI, has frameworks which have not been breaking the ABI throughout multiple releases, such as Qt.