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1. UncleE+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-03-18 16:27:54
I have one project on GitHub that I use all the time as part of a script and only push changes when the python API breaks it. It is essentially “finished” and usually just needs a quick compile against the new python version whenever I upgrade the distro. I haven’t even had to touch for at least as long as GitHub required ssh keys so by all accounts this would be an abandoned project.

Now that I think about it — it is a python wrapper around a boost library and neither of those have made backwards incompatible changes in a long time which is quite suspicious.

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2. j1elo+TB[view] [source] 2023-03-18 20:24:12
>>UncleE+(OP)
Boost libs circa Ubuntu (14 or 16.04) had JSON parser that allowed comments, while the newer Boost in Ubuntu 20.04 (and I think already in 18.04) had "updated" it and then it didn't allow comments any more.

Just a small anecdote of Boost changing behavior that broke some of my stuff.

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3. UncleE+5F1[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-03-19 07:25:56
>>j1elo+TB
I kind of expect that I’ll have to do some work at upgrade time but it’s been a while. Usually python is the culprit and can only remember boost breaking something once but that was a different project. The maintainer was quite nice on trying to help me figure it out but I don’t think I ever got it working the same again.
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