Re: lib/42182: libpixman-1.so.0 is no longer available in NetBSD 5.0_STABLE

[Soren Jacobsen <snj%pobox.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR lib/42182; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Soren Jacobsen <snj%pobox.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Jared McNeill 
<jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost>, David
 Gutteridge <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>
Subject: Re: lib/42182: libpixman-1.so.0 is no longer available in NetBSD
 5.0_STABLE
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:50:41 -0700

 On Oct 31, 2009, at 11:45 AM, David Gutteridge wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR lib/42182; it has been noted by  
 > GNATS.
 >
 > From: David Gutteridge <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: lib/42182: libpixman-1.so.0 is no longer available in  
 > NetBSD 5.0_STABLE
 > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:08:30 -0400
 >
 > Those two libraries are also not covered off by the postinstall(8)
 > obsolete check.  So an upgrade masks the problem.  (I've just
 > encountered this.)
 
 What do you mean covered off by the postinstall obsolete check?
 
 Removing the old libraries would make the situation even worse, and I  
 wouldn't call leaving them in place masking the problem.
 
 I'm not sure there's really much that can be done about this PR.   
 We'll need to have separate 5.0 and 5.1 pkg binaries, but after an  
 upgrade, no previously installed packages should break, because the  
 old libraries will still be installed.
 
 pkg_add has always (or at least for quite a long time -- I can't say  
 off of the top of my head whether this check has been there since the  
 very beginning) complained about version differences, and this is one  
 of the cases "protected" (in the sense of "yes, I admit it sucks, but  
 hey, technically we did warn you") by this check.