Notes on upgrades after libpcre update

[Tijl Coosemans]

On 12-12-2012 10:03, Alex Dupre wrote:
> Kevin Oberman ha scritto:
>> As many of you noticed, the update of devel/pcre bumped hte version of
>> libpcre.so which is a dependency of LOTS of things.
> 
> This was a very poor choice, we shouldn't have bumped the version. When
> there is a bump between two minor releases (8.31 -> 8.32) a red led
> should blink in port maintainer. The port should have defined:
> 
> USE_AUTOTOOLS=  libtool
> USE_GNOME=      ltverhack
> 
> to avoid bumbing the version. In fact this is the diff in configure.ac:
> 
> -m4_define(libpcre_version, [1:1:0])
> -m4_define(libpcre16_version, [0:1:0])
> +m4_define(libpcre_version, [3:0:2])
> +m4_define(libpcre16_version, [2:0:2])
> 
> It says that the new shared lib is compatible with the old lib (only new
> interfaces were added), since:
> 
> 1 - 0 = 3 - 2 = 1
> 1 - 0 = 2 - 2 = 0
> 
> (from the [current:revision:age] version = current - age rule)

This should be mandatory knowledge for every ports committer.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 228 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/attachments/20121213/08a98417/attachment.sig>