FAQ on PORTREVISION bump?

[Philip M. Gollucci]

On 03/28/12 16:28, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> But, for example, it seems to me that PORTREVISION should NOT be bumped
> if a LIB_DEPENDS changes, and it is not a major library revision change.
>  For example, in this case the portmaster program reinstalls the library
> only, and changes the +CONTENTS and +REQUIRED_BY of the various
> installed packages appropriately.  And the program will still work just
> fine.  So PORTREVISION should not be bumped.
I'm fairly sure thats exactly backwards.  I believe you're talking about
our 'Chase sh lib version bump' commits which most definitely require a
bump even if the major version doesn't change, b/c the old packages will
reference the old library.

Take devel/apr-1 for example.


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