cvs commit: ports/devel/adime Makefile ports/x11-wm/icewm Makefile ports/graphics/scr2png Makefile ports/x11/xbindkeys Makefile

Sahil Tandon sahil+cvs-ports at tandon.net
Sun Feb 19 15:09:48 UTC 2012


On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 06:00:53 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:56:30PM +0000, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > eadler      2012-02-18 23:56:30 UTC
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     devel/adime          Makefile 
> >     x11-wm/icewm         Makefile 
> >     graphics/scr2png     Makefile 
> >     x11/xbindkeys        Makefile 
> >   Log:
> >   Remove gratitutous version number from LIB_DEPENDS where not required.
> 
> How can it be verified if it's required or not?  Even if you can prove it's
> not now, what about the next releases?  Instead of having to constantly keep
> track and check if shlib version is "required", I would suggest simply
> making it standard practice and always specify it.  It also helps to find
> ports that were forgotten to get updateD after shlib bumps in dependency.

Alexey, I appreciate your perspective on this, but I want to make sure
you are aware of the related discussion (and opposing viewpoints) on
freebsd-ports:

 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2012-February/073267.html

-- 
Sahil Tandon


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