Misuse of PORTREVISION (Re: svn commit: r434379 - head/multimedia/x265)

[Mikhail T.]

On 21.02.2017 11:16, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> When using poudriere, you do not need to bump PORTREVISION, it will
> rebuild everything that needs rebuilding, and then, when you run pkg
> upgrade, pkg will force the reinstallation of packages because a
> dependencing shlib version was changed.
I thought so, thanks for the confirmation.
> Like I said, the problem is only with portmaster and portupgrade, not
> all our tools. I have used poudriere + pkg upgrade exclusively for 3+
> years, and never had a problem shlib version changes.
Why then is the bumping of PORTREVISION still mandatory? We are 
pessimizing things for the users of correctly-functioning tools to help 
those using the broken ones. And ensure, the broken tools will never be 
fixed all along.

    -mi