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Date:      Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:26:51 +0100
From:      Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>, Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org>, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r364287 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg-devel
Message-ID:  <53E87E4B.5090600@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <53E7F110.7010105@FreeBSD.org>
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On 10/08/14 23:24, 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.

I agree with this. But we need to define the policy of significant
fields thus. The pull request I've mentioned previously changes this
policy. But I still have no sane comments about it from the ports
developers...

https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/pull/911

-- 
Vsevolod Stakhov



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