I agree, maintainers should just break the API if they're going to do it. At the same time, it's crazy that urllib (the library mentioned in the article), brok

I agree, maintainers should just break the API if they're going to do it. At the same time, it's crazy that urllib (the library mentioned in the article), broke their API on a minor version. Python packaging documentation[1] provides the sensible guideline that API breaks should be on major versions. [1] https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/discussions/versioning/ https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/discussions/versionin...