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On 02/27/2013 04:40 PM, Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013, Yun Mao <yunmao at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know about pinning to an exact version, even in the stable branch.
>> If every package follow the version convention of major.minor, and
>> guarantees the compatibility in the same major version, then it seems
>> better to pin to the major version. Otherwise, we might miss out some
>> critical updates like security related patches. Thanks,
> 
> That's a lot of if's and assumptions :)

In fact, I would say that our experience has been that more packages
upstream do NOT follow this convention. I assume that new versions break
things.