Subject: Re: inflation of PKGREVISION bumps [was Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc]
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org>
From: Rene Hexel <rh@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 01/05/2004 08:20:37
On 05/01/2004, at 7:59 AM, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:43:35AM +1000, Rene Hexel wrote:
>> I don't know the details of the ABI/API change.
>> From Jeremy's mails, the PKGREVISION bumps might
>> have been unnecessary with tiff.
>
> It's not unnecessary, it's necessary for binary package
> consistency.
Okay. In this case, probably bumping PKGREVISIONs
without bumping *DEPENDS would have been sufficient
(as long as uploaded binary packages are linked against
the newest version of tiff).
Cheers
,
Rene