On Mar 19, 2026, at 06:55, Joshua Root wrote: > > The current version of xar on 10.13 is supposed to be 1.8.0.498. If you have > 501 installed, then not only is the assumption built into the Portfile that > that version fails to build on darwin < 23 incorrect, but many users will > never have "updated" to the rolled-back version because the epoch was never > increased (because there was no need because it doesn't build anyway, right?) > > <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/23ced58b9a73247cb3389d421e658663bdd15891> > <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/9df0a503e8490c0bb7eda2af37c6cfd9df0c9e89> > <https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/commit/b74ee5e5c15051da2666bb81681c1a33b1451e6f> > > One more case of a dynamically changing version causing problems.
You do love to complain about that, but the bug here is simply that the last commit failed to increase the epoch, right? And failing to do that would cause a problem like this regardless of whether the port was using different software versions on different OS versions.
