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

[David Holland <dholland-pkgchanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:07:49PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger 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.

How old then? The API_DEPENDS is currently glib2>=2.4.0, and that's a
long, long way back.

 > 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.

That's a separate issue. We'll probably have to patch a good number of
them ourselves eventually anyway; also, if we patch out the checks in
glib2, even as a temporary measure, are we sure that something isn't
going to break?

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David A. Holland
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