Policy on upgrading dependents

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sat May 21 16:37:04 PDT 2011


On May 21, 2011, at 18:30, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> If I maintain a library (libpng for example) and I update it to a new version that has a new library version, which requires all dependents of that library to be rebuilt, then it should be my responsibility to also commit the revbump on all the ports that use that library.
> 
> Since we have a GSoC project to remedy this (correct me if i'm wrong) then YES, for the time being let's making your responsibility since it's very temporary.

It appears I need to acquaint myself better with what's going on with GSoC!




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