Re: to revbump or not to revbump?

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

On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 09:36:26AM +0100, Emile `iMil' Heitor wrote:
 > >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.
 > 
 > Agreed, but what I was pointing out is that while this behaviour is
 > wrong from a user perspective, it is 100% accurate from a
 > dependencies point of view, which pkgin assume are always correct
 > (at some point it should rely on something...).

I'm not sure I understand (maybe I missed something in the original
scenario) -- how is removing packages that the user installed correct?

(if they were tagged automatic, removing them wasn't wrong)

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David A. Holland
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