Unpublishing API post 4.0

[Michael Stahl]

On 08/02/13 17:50, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> On 02/08/2013 07:31 AM, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
>> The hitch with announcing changes in micro releases is that the
>> lexicographical order of release numbers does not necessarily match the
>> chronological order of releases, so what does it mean if some change is
>> in "since LO 4.0.2" if LO 4.1 has been released before LO 4.0.2?
> 
> But we have the same problem with bug fixes, no?  We say this bug is 
> fixed in version x.y.z.  And we don't seem to suffer from this supposed 
> hypothetical conundrum.

the bugzilla whiteboard field tends to contain stuff like "target:4.1.0
target:4.0.1"

> If the need really arises, then we can easily list two versions anyway 
> i.e. (since 4.0.2/ 4.1, or something like that.

AFAIK extensions may specify a single "minimum version" and if they rely
on some newly introduced API then that may become messy if that API is
introduced at different points in different release branches.