Subject: Re: When has a binary package changed?
To: NetBSD Packages Technical Discussion List <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: None <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/17/2005 18:29:25
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 12:23:16PM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> 
>   * Dependency changes occur when a DEPENDS changes in a package, or a
>     BUILDLINK_DEPENDS or BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED changes in a buildlink3 file
>     directly included by a package.  Indirect buildlink3 inclusions are not
>     covered, as they do not affect direct dependency information; and a bump
>     is also not required if a BUILDLINK_DEPENDS is bumped such that it is
>     still "less" than an also-present BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED.

It is also important to distinguish the few cases of static libraries,
read pure build time dependencies. If I'm not much mistaken, the last
revision bump of pkg_filecheck from Roland was not necessary, since
libnbcompat is purely static.

Joerg