Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/www/webkit-gtk

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:00:05PM +0200, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 1 May 2012 03:02:33 +0000
> David Holland <dholland-pkgchanges%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > given PR 46392, and
> > the probability that there are quite a few other packages needing
> > patching, do you think it might be a good idea to bump glib2's
> > API_DEPENDS?
> 
> I don't think that API_DEPENDS is the right knob to turn here.
> A pkg which is ready for glib2-2.32 will most likely build
> with older glib2 versions as well. Direct use of these <glib/*.h>
> includes had been obsoleted at least one major version before.

Do we really want to fix up all the glib using packages? I expect it to
be very, very common... "It has been obsoleted for one major version" is
not helpful.

Joerg