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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] release retrospective, next release timing,
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To: Liviu Ionescu <ilg@livius.net>
Cc: "Daniel P. =?UTF-8?B?QmVycmFuZ8Op?=" <berrange@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2 May 2018 01:02:49 -0700
Liviu Ionescu <ilg@livius.net> wrote:

> On 2 May 2018 at 10:59:07, Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 (berrange@redhat.com) =
wrote:
>=20
> > Our deprecation policy lets us include incompatible
> > changes in *any* release. =20
>=20
> can you elaborate on this?
>=20
> where is this policy defined?

See https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LegacyRemoval, especially "Rules for
removing an interface". An incompatible change is basically a subset of
removing.