On 11/6/13 7:15 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > The synopsis of the situation is that the latest firefox ebuild now > depends on icu, specifically icu-50.1 or above. When this version of > firefox was added to the tree, the lowest version of icu in the tree > was icu-51.0 -- in fact, icu-48 through icu-50 were dropped from the > tree about 2 months prior to the new firefox being added. > > The bug that was filed, is that a user didn't do a full emerge -uDN > @world prior to emerging (upgrading?) firefox, and they had icu-49 > already installed. Because the firefox dep didn't have a minimum > version, portage didn't see upgrading icu as a requirement before > firefox emerged.
I've seen things like that happening. I wouldn't really create yet another policy (it doesn't make things happen). I'd leave it up to the maintainer: it'd be fine to declare it not a bug, and it'd also be fine to fix. I'm generally leaning toward fixing and adding the minimum version to deps. Helps the users, and doesn't really hurt maintainability. Paweł
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