change of dependencies -- revision bump?

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Mon Mar 24 04:53:36 PDT 2014


On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:25:08 +0100, Peter Danecek wrote:
> I need to add some dependencies for one python port and this regards ONLY Python 2.6. The content of the package would not change. Do I need to bump the revision in this case?
> 
> I would be inclined not to do so. The packages is unchanged and the changes might affect only few (if any) python 2.6 installs. On the other hand, the for python 2.6 users things might changing if the dependencies were not installed before and the impact of reinstalling the package is not too bit.

You need to increase the revision. Any user who installed the port
before this change would not have the dependency in their
registry. This information is used to prevent deactivating/uninstalling
a port with active dependents.

Rainer


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