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Roland Lutz wrote:
> I increased the minimum required version numbers to those included in
> Debian 10 (soon to be oldstable) because that's the oldest distribution
> I test with.

Please never *ever* do that.

You need to encode the *actual* minimum required dependencies in
configure.ac, not what your particular testing environment uses.

Forcing unneccessary upgrades is absolutely not okay.


> If gEDA/gaf 1.10.0 worked with your system, though, I'm not aware of
> anything that would change this with gEDA/gaf 1.10.1.

Then please revert any bumped version requirements. I'd suggest
releasing 1.10.2 after that.


//Peter