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For other projects doing something similar, the Rust project has Crater (https://crater.rust-lang.org), which I believe is automatically run on betas, and can be run explicitly on PRs. But is not by default. Because it builds tens of thousands of crates using the specified compiler, and takes 3 days to complete a run.
I agree with you. Churn for churn's sake to make things marginally better. One man's refactoring is another man's refucktoring.
Depending on a library could also insert a record on the library's CI system to indicate the dependency. The library CI will ping a URL with a version number to indicate that "you need to re-test with this version". It would certainly make software more robust and evolvable.
I've thought about it before and called it library mesh: https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2#10-library-mesh
People don't understand how their code can mess up others in unexpected ways. A few weeks ago my youtube just stopped working. Turns out, a change made to the apollo-graphql extension caused window.process to be readonly and youtube's code was not expecting that: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client-devtools/issu...
I know this isn't a dependency issue, but it's a great example of why things like semver don't work perfectly in practice. It's hard to figure out what the effects of your code really are in the end. You might assume a change is minor when it really is major. I wish programming languages could figure out what the version change should be for a given code change.
In the protobuf library, there are some protections against cases like this. For example, they add extra enum values that are explicitly labeled as "do not use" to prevent switch statements from assuming that an enum is complete and future-proof. https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/...