Re: pkg/47441: Please, pull up sysutils/libnotify to latest version

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The following reply was made to PR pkg/47441; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: diro%nixsyspaus.org@localhost
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/47441: Please, pull up sysutils/libnotify to latest version
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:24:52 -0500

 On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 08:05:02AM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/47441; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
 > To: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/47441: Please, pull up sysutils/libnotify to latest version
 > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:00:56 +0100
 > 
 >  On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:35:00PM +0000, diro%nixsyspaus.org@localhost 
 > wrote:
 >  >   Patches here: http://pastebin.com/aWJWmzg3
 >  
 >  Why is xmlto a DEPENDS -- is it perhaps only a BUILD_DEPENDS?
 
 Oh, right. Yes, it is only needed to build part of the documentation and thus
 just a BUILD_DEPEND.
 
 >  BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.libnotify shouldn't be bumped.
 
 The update for compiz-fusion-plugins-extra requires libnotify >=0.6.1. I
 suppose that means that the newer version had an backwards-incompatible API 
change.
 
 
 >  (if a package needs that version, it should set the variable in its own 
 > Makefile)
 
 (It needed that anyway to appease verifypc).
 
 >  Due to the switch from gtk2 to gtk3, all packages using it need to 
 > PKGREVISION++.
 
 Right, and a lot of them depend on it, so it's a big deal.
 
 >  Have you tried if they still build? (Perhaps some are stuck in gtk2.)
 >   Thomas
 
 Like i said, just with Transmission-gui. There's no other packages that i use
 (besides ekiga maybe and compiz-fusion-plugins-extra) and those had no issue
 with it. Saw no problems with either of those. I could probably get someone to
 test it with the xfce4 stuff.
 
 dh's suggestion is probably for the best, but could we import this as
 libnotify07, and slowly link packages to it as we test them (such as the above
 two which have been shown to work)?