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> Have you got an example where pure addition breaks the existing compatibility?

Surely they're mutually exclusive terms. I think GP was talking about cases where the developer releases a change thinking it's just an addition, but it actually breaks compatibility.

Of course, that boils down to saying that software updates sometimes have bugs. What that has to do with semver, I have no idea.



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