Re: to revbump or not to revbump?

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 08:33:10PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > > Any change to DEPENDS requires bumping the package whose depends
 > > change, so if fontconfig stopped depending on something it should have
 > > been bumped.
 > 
 > I think the problem is rather that the version in current is new
 > enough and the pkgsrc version is not needed any longer. We haven't
 > been bumping PKGREVISION for this reason yet.

Hmm. We shouldn't anyway... as people don't exactly update base and
packages in sync.

Sounds like pkgin needs to be more robust. Which is probably a good
idea anyway; tossing out semi-related packages because of a revbumping
glitch isn't really what anyone wants.

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David A. Holland
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