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Date:      Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:29:23 -0400
From:      Wesley Shields <wxs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/net-im/libpurple Makefile
Message-ID:  <20090324112923.GD1292@atarininja.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090324104032.GA47617@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200903240023.n2O0NVBb013624@repoman.freebsd.org> <49C84088.9020505@FreeBSD.org> <20090324021518.GC1292@atarininja.org> <49C84339.60201@FreeBSD.org> <20090324104032.GA47617@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:40:32AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:19:37PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > Wesley Shields wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:08:08PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:
> > >> Since silc is off by default (and therefore the package won't change),
> > >> was this necessary?
> > > 
> > > There are two viewpoints to this:
> > > 
> > > 1) The option is off by default so the package won't change, and thus
> > > PORTREVISION doesn't need to be bumped.
> > > 
> > > 2) Not bumping PORTREVISION may cause the port to misbehave if it's
> > > built with old libraries.
> > 
> > I don't see the logic in this. The port works just fine right now with
> > the old libraries. Can you be more specific about the scenario you're
> > concerned about?
> 
> Per what I see, shlib version of libsilcclient was bumped during
> devel/silc-toolkit update.  Since net-im/libpurple explicitly depends on
> named library, PORTREVISION bump is in order, since API could have
> changed (thus the shlib version bump).  If silc-toolkit update was
> merely a bugfix one, and shlib version retained, PORTREVISION should be
> left intact.

Exactly what I intended to say.  Thank you Alexey.  I have no way of
knowing if the API is the same or not so it's best to bump it just in
case.

-- WXS



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