[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #1773: check/test/update claim about compatibility with old clients and servers in relnotes.txt

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#1773: check/test/update claim about compatibility with old clients and servers in
relnotes.txt
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  marlowe
  davidsarah             |     Status:  new
         Type:  defect   |  Milestone:  1.10.0
     Priority:  normal   |    Version:  1.9.1
    Component:           |   Keywords:  relnotes docs backward-
  documentation          |  compatibility
   Resolution:           |
Launchpad Bug:           |
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Old description:

> From ticket:541#comment:9 :
> > relnotes.txt says:
> >
> > > Servers from this release can serve clients of all versions back to
> v1.0 and clients from this release can use servers of all versions back
> to v1.0.
> >
> > which I believe is already incorrect, although I can't remember why
> not. Should we be making this claim when we don't test it?

New description:

 From ticket:541#comment:9 :
 > relnotes.txt says:
 >
 > > Servers from this release can serve clients of all versions back to
 v1.0 and clients from this release can use servers of all versions back to
 v1.0.
 >
 > which I believe is already incorrect, although I can't remember why not.
 Should we be making this claim when we don't test it?

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Comment (by marlowe):

 A couple of questions as we come up to 1.10.

 1) Do we wish to test compatibility and if so, how far back?[[BR]]
 2) If we don't desire to test this, do we want to simply remove the
 statement all together or add a "should" into the statement?

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Ticket URL: <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1773#comment:1>
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