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Re: please revbump boost-libs



Matthias Ferdinand <mf+ml.pkgsrc-users%netzwerkagentursaarland.de@localhost>
writes:

> On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 03:32:50PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> >     # pkg_info -n libcdr | grep boost
>> >     boost-libs-1.60.*
>> >     boost-libs>=1.60.0
>> >
>> > Can you please do a revbump for boost-libs?
>> 
>> Was there actually an ABI change?  Why does libcdr depend on exactly
>> 1.60?
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know enough about C++ and boost to tell if there was an ABI
> change or not. The exact dependency on =1.60 probably comes from the
> buildlink3.mk file, where both dependencies (=, >=) are stated.

In the bl3, I see an = dependency for API, and a >= for ABI.   So I
don't see where the exact run-time dependency is coming from.

> The problem that I have is that the clients using binary package repos
> do not pick up the rebuilt packages (those which use boost-libs) because
> of the missing revbump, whereas they do pick up the updated boost-libs
> package itself. That results in broken dependencies in the local package
> database.

Sure, but the hard question is exactly what is wrong.

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