[webkit-gtk] About the policy of (non) updating minimum build-dependencies

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 07/07/16 04:32, Michael Gratton wrote:
> Also, it's probably worth keeping in mind what upstream is planning for speeding
> up GTK+ releases going forward[0]. If this happens there will be a new major
> GTK+ releases every few years, so to provide support for LTS versions of
> distros, WebKitGTK+ may need to start cutting branches for each, since major
> versions may not be trivially backwards compatible?

They actually plan to bump the SONAME every 6 months.

Emilio