Re: pkg/58943: pkgin doesn't warn if installed packages vanished and are broken by shlib major bumps

["Thomas Klausner via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/58943; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/58943: pkgin doesn't warn if installed packages vanished and
 are broken by shlib major bumps
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:54:58 +0100

 On Sat, Dec 28, 2024 at 06:50:01PM +0000, Martin Husemann via gnats wrote:
 >  How should pkgin tell this apart from:
 >  
 >   a) foo has become part of bar (so no foo pkg is needed any more) - like
 >      it happens from time to time with perl extensions/libraries
 >  
 >   b) foo got renamed or a successor pkg and the new pkg was installed
 >      (e.g. as part of a meta-pkg that used to require foo but now requires
 >      the new version)
 
 pkgin already understand SUPERSEDES.
  Thomas