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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Changes in installed ebuilds
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Kristian Fiskerstrand:
> On 06/24/2014 09:25 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote:
>> Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote:
> 
>>> On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 22:15 +0200, Jörg Schaible wrote:
>>>> So, why the heck, was the dependency to dev-libs/glib changed
>>>> for an existing ebuild without increasing its version (e.g. 
>>>> dbus-glib-0.100.2-r2)?
>>>
>>> Please see
>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/91615
> 
>> These blocks had nothing to do with the multilibs ABI. It has been
>> just the updated versions for the dependencies.
> 
> 
> For what it is worth, I completely agree significant changes to stable
> ebuilds (hereunder changes to dependencies) should get a revision bump
> and go through normal stabilization procedures.
> 
> 

That would be a waste of time and would increase the overall workload on
arch teams who already need 2-4 weeks to keep up with the queue. There
is no reason to re-stabilize a package after a build-time bug has been
fixed by adjusting the version of a dependency.

Moreover, the fix that was applied was very important.