svn commit: r364287 - head/ports-mgmt/pkg-devel

[Vsevolod Stakhov]

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

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Vsevolod Stakhov