Re: pkg/53867 (lang/erlang-doc fails after update)

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/53867; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/53867 (lang/erlang-doc fails after update)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 18:49:22 -0500

 On Tue, 2019-01-22 at 01:12 -0500, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
 > Separately, there is also a problem that the specific values in the
 > erlang versions.mk file are not guaranteed to align with what the
 > equivalent "latest" distribution file for erlang-doc contains. For
 > example:
 
 The update to erlang a couple of hours ago broke this package again,
 since now the inets component is at 7.0.4 in the latest erlang patch
 set, but 7.0.3 in the latest doc distribution (since doc doesn't get
 updated at the same frequency upstream).
 
 The safest thing to do is simply break all the version references in
 erlang-doc's PLIST, and leave these packages more-or-less completely
 decoupled, so this doesn't keep happening. I'll do this if there are
 no objections. (The exception being, the DUPLICATE_FILES settings in
 the erlang-doc make file need to remain, so it still needs to depend
 on erlang's Makefile.versions.)
 
 Dave