Protobuf3-cpp update woes; strategy to avoid broken dependent ports?

[Daniel J. Luke]

On May 21, 2021, at 8:38 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:
> If it's not actually doing anything that should break binary compatibility (removing symbols or changing their semantics), the fix is to stop increasing the library major version for binary compatible updates. If it is, there's no getting around rev bumping all dependents.

This is something that would be nice to expand macports base to handle more easily (although the details of the implementation might be annoying to deal with) - but we've managed for a /long/ time with rev-bumping all dependent ports.

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Daniel J. Luke