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Date:      Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:08:22 +0000
From:      "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" <lioux@uol.com.br>
To:        Michael Harnois <mharnois@cpinternet.com>
Cc:        Alex Varju <alex@varju.bc.ca>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: libpng version bump
Message-ID:  <20010912220822.A20985@exxodus.fedaykin.here>
In-Reply-To: <86k7z32a8s.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net>; from mharnois@cpinternet.com on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 07:40:45PM -0500
References:  <20010912152207.G62614-100000@snapple.webct.com> <86k7z32a8s.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net>

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On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 07:40:45PM -0500, Michael Harnois wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:26:14 -0700 (PDT), Alex Varju <alex@varju.bc.ca> said:
> 
>     > I have a quick question about policy regarding version bumps for
>     > shared libraries. I have gotten in the habit of removing old
>     > versions of ports before installing the new one, and found that
>     > suddenly a large number of things stopped working with the
>     > libpng major was incremented.
> 
> I second the question. I still haven't located all the dependencies I
> need to fix. It was a minor disaster.

	Well, it took me 3 hours to rebuild. At least, I was aware of
the problem before I began updating but it would have been nice to
be able to have used automated portupgrade instead of using my own
hacked scripts to uninstall/reinstall png related ports.

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