On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Amitai Schlair wrote:

> Likewise, I've avoided bumping PKGREVISION when updating a package
> to build and install on Darwin. As I see it, PKGREVISION is a way
> to tell the user (or pkgsrc itself) that a previously working
> package has been improved. If the package just stopped being broken,
> the user (and pkgsrc) already know it's been improved.

I believe it should be increased then too.

I guess it depends on definition of "broken".

A "broken" package may have been built (packaged), but just not work
properly.

So the version number needs to be different so an end-user easily knows
which package is which.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/