[106554] trunk/dports

[Ryan Schmidt]

On May 31, 2013, at 14:02, Clemens Lang wrote:

> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:21:24AM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> I had kind of hoped we weren't going to update icu until after
>> MacPorts 2.2 had been released because of the library overlinking
>> issue and all of the revision increases this necessitates.
>> https://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2013-February/021943.html
> 
> We should get this change out of the door sooner than later, yes.
> Regarding the ICU update, there's not much we can do now – the damage is
> done, the rev-bumps will have to trickle in now anyway.

Agreed. And thanks for doing a lot of the work already.

> Avoiding updates because of the necessary revbumps sounds like a broken
> concept to me, though. For the same reasons we could stop updating
> libpng or openjpeg.

Indeed I am delaying updating libpng to 1.6.x for this reason.

> If revbumps are such a hassle, we should try
> automating them as much as possible, e.g. but keeping track of the
> linking or modifying rev-upgrade in a way that will do them as quickly
> and easily as possible.
> 
> If you want this change out there, push 2.2 or backport the change and
> release 2.1.4, but delaying updates until an unknown future date doesn't
> sound like a good idea to me.

I agree we should release MacPorts 2.2 ASAP for this reason.