Re: please revbump boost-libs

[Matthias Ferdinand <mf+ml.pkgsrc-users%netzwerkagentursaarland.de@localhost>]

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 01:29:38PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> In the bl3, I see an = dependency for API, and a >= for ABI.   So I
> don't see where the exact run-time dependency is coming from.
> 
> > The problem that I have is that the clients using binary package repos
> > do not pick up the rebuilt packages (those which use boost-libs) because
> > of the missing revbump, whereas they do pick up the updated boost-libs
> > package itself. That results in broken dependencies in the local package
> > database.
> 
> Sure, but the hard question is exactly what is wrong.

Even if the question if and how "bmake package" should to be fixed to
not include the exact API dependency can be resolved, I still think a
revbump would be a nice thing to resolve the current problem of wrong
binary package dependencies.

Regards
Matthias