On Mon, 2023-02-06 at 14:09 +0000, Marek Szuba wrote: > Dear everyone, > > Having not been given any love for a long time, we have now got in the > tree a version of dev-libs/msgpack newer than 3.3.0 - namely 5.0.0. Yes, > we have managed to skip the entire major version 4 (yay?)! Anyway, the > version in question introduces at least two breaking changes: > > - since 4.0.0, the (header-only) C++ library is no longer bundled with > the C one. As a consequence, a new(ish) package dev-cpp/msgpack-cxx has > been introduced and >=dev-libs/msgpack-5.0.0 no longer provide > IUSE="boost cxx"; > > - since 5.0.0 CMake modules for both the C and the C++ variant of > msgpack have different names, which might break cmake-based revdeps > which have not been updated accordingly. > > In light of the above, both dev-cpp/msgpack-cxx and > >=dev-libs/msgpack-5.0.0 are currently masked in order to give the > maintainers of msgpack devreps ample time to test compatibility with the > new versions. They will, however, be unmasked on the 3rd of March unless > major problems are encountered with the revdep update. There is a > tracker bug "msgpack-5" which can be used to group related issues. >
Given there's only a handful of revdeps, perhaps you could simply test them? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
