Security related upgrades

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Watson Ladd <watsonbladd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let's say a package gets updated because of a security issue. Will
> macports prompt to upgrade the dependents so they do not
> rely on broken packages, or is this something that
> the end-user always needs to be aware of?
>

MacPorts should deal with it.  Note that if the fix doesn't change the API
and the package uses dylibs (as is usual), dependents wouldn't need to be
rebuilt anyway; this is one of the big reasons for shared objects/dylibs.

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