Re: [libvirt] [libvirt-glib PATCHv5 7/7] gobject: Add wrapper for virNetworkGetDHCPLeases

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 05:27:39PM +0100, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Christophe pointed out that this and the previous patch binds API that >> was added an year ago: >> >> commit: 03e0e79e07622496522609741734c2fdcacb5bf2 >> Author: Nehal J Wani <nehaljw.kkd1(a)gmail.com&gt; >> Date: Tue Jun 24 02:31:49 2014 +0530 >> >> net-dhcp-leases: Implement the public APIs >> >> Introduce 3 new APIs, virNetworkGetDHCPLeases, virNetworkGetDHCPLeasesForMAC >> and virNetworkDHCPLeaseFree. >> --------------- >> >> While I think 1 year old is pretty old enough to justify bumping the >> dep to that version, Christophe thinks its still too soon. I'd hate to >> go through the trouble of adding ugly #ifdef around these new API but >> if others (I guess mainly Dan?) agree with Christophe, I can do that. > > 1 year being old/not old is not a very useful/convincing argument. What > is more interesting is what (supported) distros are shipping (f21, el7, > oldest ubuntu LTS shipping libvirt-glib, debian, ...). For the record, I don't think upstream development should depend on when distros decided to upgrade packages and their release cycles.

Also keeping in mind that it makes very little sense to upgrade libvirt-glib and not libvirt since libvirt doesn't break any ABI/API.