2017-02-26 Breaking compatibility in a patch release
Broke a pure-ftpd install this
morning by recklessly failing to read the change log before upgrading.
Missed this note for 1.0.44:
The Perl and Python wrappers are gone. The daemon can now use a configuration file without requiring external dependencies.
This meant that the s6 run
script had to be updated:
#!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/sbin/pure-config.pl /ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf 2>&1
Became:
#!/bin/sh exec /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd /ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf 2>&1
The documentation was not updated. I had to work out how to get
the server to consume the configuration file by guessing, and had
to trace the executable with ktrace to make sure that it actually
was reading the file.
I tend to forget that not all projects use semantic
versioning and what I expected to be a
simple bug-fix update from 1.0.43 to 1.0.45 turned out to be a
service-disrupting change.
If you maintain software and you're reading this, please make your version numbers mean something!
