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@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ particularly useful to packagers.
combined with either ``ctest --verbose`` or ``ctest
--output-on-failure``.
+- Packagers should never define the ``FUTURE`` build option. API
+ changes enabled by ``FUTURE`` are not stable and may be
+ API/ABI-breaking. That option is intended only for people who are
+ testing their code with a local build of qpdf to provide early
+ feedback or prepare for possible future changes to the API.
+
- qpdf's install targets do not install completion files by default
since there is no standard location for them. As a packager, it's
good if you install them wherever your distribution expects such