Binary packages not rebuilding against updated libraries

[Rainer Müller]

On 2018-04-26 08:03, Jan Stary wrote:
>>
>> For comparison, the OpenBSD port system has resigned on upstreams'
>> library versioning, and versions the libraries itself. For example,
>> in audio/libsndfile (1.0.28):
>>
>> 	SHARED_LIBS +=  sndfile   6.0   # .1.28
>>
>> and it installs /usr/local/lib/libsndfile.so.6.0.
> 
> BTW, what's with the version numbers in e.g.
> otool -L /opt/local/bin/openssl:
> /opt/local/lib/libssl.45.dylib (compatibility version 46.0.0, current version 46.1.0)
> 
> libssl.45.dylib is what the vanilla tarball itself produces.
> Where exactly do the numbers 46.0.0 and 46.1.0 come from?

Check the file ssl/VERSION in the libressl distribution.

Rainer