devel/gettext notification in /usr/ports/UPDATING

[Dominic Fandrey]

Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:
> 
>>>> libintl got version bumped, so if something linked against it, ldd
>>>> would be looking for the old version, not find it and complain about
>>>> it.
>>> What's the old and what's the new version?
>>>
>> old: libintl.so.7
>> new: libintl.so.8
> 
> Remarkable.
> 
> In my reality, libintl was bumped from so.6 to .so.8 with the update
> to gettext 0.16.1 and has stayed at .so.8 since.  In particular,
> there was no libintl bump as part of the update to 0.17.
> 

If that is the case then the gettext warning from 20080605 in
/usr/ports/UPDATING was entirely wrong and all the version
bumping has been for naught. There was no reason to rebuild
anything at all.

Even worse than I assumed.