Re: HEADS UP: I will be merging christos-time_t by the end of the week

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Geert Hendrickx wrote:

> A mass revbump only solves the problem for those people tracking pkgsrc-HEAD
> and NetBSD-current at the same time (and in the right order).  People who are
> using 5.0_BETA or older now and upgrade to current (or 6.0) later, while
> having updated their pkgsrc in the meanwhile (most likely), will still face
> the problem.  For them the mass revision bumping in pkgsrc will only be an
> extra annoyance in the meanwhile.
>
> Can't we just yell loudly in UPDATING, on current-users and in the 6.0 release
> notes?

        We have an ABI value recorded in +BUILD_INFO - can we not use this
        to indicate a post christos-time_t binary is incompatible with
        an earlier library?

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