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[PATCH] gnu: gnome-calendar: Update to 3.26.1.

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Message #17 received at 28653 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Mohammed Sadiq <sadiq <at> sadiqpk.org>
Cc: 28653 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#28653] [PATCH] gnu: gnome-calendar: Update to 3.26.1.
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:48:24 +0200

Mohammed Sadiq <sadiq <at> sadiqpk.org> skribis:

>> On October 3, 2017 at 6:55 PM Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> Is it OK to have a mixture of GNOME 3.24 and 3.26 applications?  (I
>> thought all GNOME apps/libraries had to be updated in lockstep.)
>> 
>
> As long as the newly introduced APIs are not used, it is okay.
> And the minimum required version should be specified in configure.ac
> or meson.build.
>
> So if it builds with an older library, it should also work fine.
> If it doesn't work right, it is an upstream bug. The minimum required
> dependency version should be updated upstream.

OK, that makes sense.  Thanks for explaining!

Ludo’.

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