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.
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