Re: How to handle updates to mozilla-rootcerts?

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2018-04-24 at 19:01 BST, Mike Pumford wrote:

> 2. package upgrades (libraries) as it also re-installs packages that depend
> on those libraries. Its common with pkgin for a library to change and
> something that depends on that library to break as the soname has changed.
> Recent examples were mencoder (broken when mplayer-core updated). And emacs
> which broken when the otf library was upgraded under it. I know the pkgsrc
> team try to update the nb patchlevel for this but thats a thankless task for
> libraries that lots of packages depend on.

FWIW I've fixed this in pkgin and it will be in the next release.

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