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From: Max Brazhnikov <makc@freebsd.org>
To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r364287 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg-devel
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Cc: svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@freebsd.org>,
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 Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org>,
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 23:24:16 +0100 Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 10/08/2014 21:09, Vsevolod Stakhov wrote:
> > Nonetheless, doesn't our ports policy defines to bump PORTREVISION in
> > all cases that modifies a resulting package? Shlib provides/requires
> > changing is definitely such a change. So you blame now pkg that it
> > follows the current policy, don't you?
> 
> Bumping PORTREVISION in this situation is the standard policy only
> because we previously lacked the tools to update dependent ports on
> shlib ABI changes without it.
> 
> Ideally, pkg(8) will be able to make that policy obsolete by automating
> away the manual reverse-dependency tracking that should be (but is not
> always) being done at the moment.

It won't work in all cases anyway. I can give examples of ports, that must be
rebuilt if dependency gets updated, and it's not related to shared libraries.