forward incompatibility?

[Charles Wilson]

patch-2.5.8-3 requires the new symbol strerror_r, which is not provided 
by cygwin-1.3.19; it was added in 1.3.20.  Therefore, if you've updated 
'patch' but not 'cygwin', you get a missing symbol popup.

I'm not complaining; this is not abnormal behavior.  We guarantee 
backward compatibility, not forward -- and this is a *forward* 
compatibility issue.  I just don't remember a warning in the 
patch-2.5.8-3 announcement that upgrading patch *requires* upgrading cygwin.

Not that I check forward compatibility, every time I release a new 
package, either...

--Chuck


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