[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Changes in installed ebuilds

["Jörg Schaible" <joerg.schaible@gmx.de>]

Michał Górny wrote:

> Dnia 2014-06-26, o godz. 00:48:02
> Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible@gmx.de> napisał(a):
> 
>> hasufell wrote:
>> 
>> > 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.
>> 
>> 
>> And, since the official tree did not have an older version of those deps
>> anyway, the upgrade in the stable dependent ebuilds was unnecessary. It
>> just broke the tree for users with local or other overlays.
> 
> But people could have older versions of those deps installed, and then
> their systems would slowly become broken on upgrades. Since the issues
> wouldn't be caught early properly, they would trigger incorrect
> installs of another packages and a few dep-tree branches further,
> an unexpected hard-to-debug failures.

OK, you have a point. However, it is more dependent on the way people use 
emerge. This scenario could not have happen to me, I call emerge always 
with:

   emerge -uDvta --changed-use --with-bdeps=y

Cheers,
Jörg