Re: pkgsrc freeze? p5-DBI dependency version

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 10:27:05AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
>   Assume it is unfrozen, I'm planning on changing the default p5-DBI
>   dependency to version 1.52.  I noticed that the p5-DBD-postgresql
>   package doesn't actually work with version 1.48nb1 (which is the
>   current minimum version).  Before I do that, I was wondering if
>   there's some reason that it was at such an early version, or should
>   I just change it to the current version? (1.607 !)
> 
> It seems that generally we try not to require bleeding edge in
> buildlink3.mk, but to pick the oldest version which has the necessary
> features/interfaces to support almost all of the depending packages.
> 
> I'm not sure where you got 1.52 from, but if p5-DBD-postgresql uses some
> function introduced in 1.52, that sounds sensible.

Yeah, the error message from trying to use p5-DBD-postgresql explicitly
mentioned 1.52.  I'll change it to that.

eric