Tobias Nygren wrote:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:01:23 -0600 (CST) "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost> wrote:
I am guessing this doesn't matter for pkgsrc on NetBSD which don't depend on the openssl package. But for other platforms it may be needed.
For example, if the dependent packages foo-1.2.3 links with libcrypto.so.0.9.7 (instead of now libcrypto.so.0.9.8), then foo needs to become foo-1.2.3nb1. (Or how we will we know the difference between two different packages with identical version?)
Technically I suppose you're correct. But that's alot of packages to bump for a change that only affects people who actively chose to not use builtin openssl. I can't make this call, but if pmc wants to have hundreds of packages bumped I will see it through. I'll make a survey of exactly how many packages we're talking about. I would guess at least 500, maybe more.
Speaking on behalf of pkgsrc-pmc, please do the PKGREVISION bumps for the reasons outlined by Jeremy above.
Thanks,
-- Johnny C. Lam