Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Changes in installed ebuilds

[Michał Górny]

Dnia 2014-06-26, o godz. 00:48:02
Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible@×××.de> napisał(a):

> hasufell wrote:
>
> > Kristian Fiskerstrand:
> >> On 06/24/2014 09:25 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> >>> Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> >>
> >>>> On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 22:15 +0200, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> >>>>> So, why the heck, was the dependency to dev-libs/glib changed
> >>>>> for an existing ebuild without increasing its version (e.g.
> >>>>> dbus-glib-0.100.2-r2)?
> >>>>
> >>>> Please see
> >>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/91615
> >>
> >>> These blocks had nothing to do with the multilibs ABI. It has been
> >>> just the updated versions for the dependencies.
> >>
> >>
> >> For what it is worth, I completely agree significant changes to stable
> >> ebuilds (hereunder changes to dependencies) should get a revision bump
> >> and go through normal stabilization procedures.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > That would be a waste of time and would increase the overall workload on
> > arch teams who already need 2-4 weeks to keep up with the queue. There
> > is no reason to re-stabilize a package after a build-time bug has been
> > fixed by adjusting the version of a dependency.
> >
> > Moreover, the fix that was applied was very important.
>
>
> And, since the official tree did not have an older version of those deps
> anyway, the upgrade in the stable dependent ebuilds was unnecessary. It just
> broke the tree for users with local or other overlays.

But people could have older versions of those deps installed, and then
their systems would slowly become broken on upgrades. Since the issues
wouldn't be caught early properly, they would trigger incorrect
installs of another packages and a few dep-tree branches further,
an unexpected hard-to-debug failures.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny