Re: Can we stop revbumping the world please?

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 04:37:35PM +0100, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> Due to the recent two(!) icu revbumps, I have to rebuild almost every
> package on my machine now, which will probably take about a week (as it's a
> slow ARM64). Meanwhile, to put things into perspective, I have a *single*
> package actually depending on icu installed. I am now rebuilding hundreds
> and hundreds of packages on an slow machine when all that would actually
> need to be rebuilt is a single package.
> 
> I've also noticed that many of the packages I maintain get revbumped
> frequently, for completely unrelated packages (not just icu). Can we please
> stop saying "Oh, I updated some library, let me revbump every single package
> in the tree"? It doesn't scale (we can't rebuild every single package in
> pkgsrc every time a library updates). It doesn't make sense. It wastes time,
> energy and space. It's literally destroying the planet for no reason.

I don't see why we always need the latest version of these huge unstable
C++ libraries. Developers don't target the latest version since their
users are on LTS linux distributions. Often we are fixing fallout related
to them.