On Feb 8, 2013, at 8:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'd like to upgrade the icu port to version 50. This changes the library 
> version number so I'll need to revbump everything linking with it. Any tips 
> on how to identify what ports those are? I know I can find ports declaring a 
> dependency on icu with:
> 
> port file all | sort -u | xargs grep :icu
> 
> But what about ports not declaring a dependency? I also need to examine the 
> dependents of every port that depends on icu don't I?

I think if a port actually links against another port, it should have a 
dependency listed.  Indirect dependencies should indicate that the project 
doesn't actually link it directly (and thus would not need such a bump).

Just bump those that list the dependency and do a local upgrade of all of them 
on your systems.  Do a 'revdep-upgrade' in report mode and look for anything 
that got missed.  Add the dependency to those ports and revbump them as well.

> For example pango was recently updated to 1.32.5, which for the first time 
> uses harfbuzz, which uses icu, so now everything that uses pango also uses 
> icu and needs a revbump.

That's not true.  As an example, libX11 now uses libxcb as a backend instead of 
xtrans, but clients of libX11 don't care what transport backend libX11 uses.  
They just link against libX11 and didn't need to bump when I switched libX11's 
backend to libxcb.

> I think I want to explicitly add a port:icu dependency to all ports using 
> pango to make these easier to find in the future.

No, please don't do that.  Only do that if the port actually links against icu.

> I figure while we're already dealing with a chaos of revbumps and rebuilds 
> due to jpeg 9 we may as well get icu 50 over with at the same time. Any 
> objections?

Might as well.

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