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Re: PKGREVISION bumps?



John Klos <john%ziaspace.com@localhost> writes:

> Just curious - when I fix little things to make a package build on a
> specific OS or architecture, I don't increment PKGREVISION. My
> reasoning is that if the change didn't change anything for other OSes
> or architectures, and if the package didn't build on the OS/arch which
> is/are affected, then nobody cares about the distinction - other
> people don't need to rebuild and the people with the problem never had
> a package installed anyway.

If a binary package (which previously was built) is after a change
different in any way someone could care about, then PKGREVISION++.

Usually I don't increment PKGREVISION for spelling or wording in DESCR,
even though perhaps I should.  But if the PLIST changes, or the code,
then definitely.

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