On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 09:12:19AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> oh, I'm not really keen on giving people this shortcut - it's quite common
> for function types to change, and that's an incompatible change which needs
> the library major to be bumped.
> 
> if people don't want to look at the full diff they should just bump major
> anyway (but they should also be aware that library major bumps cause a
> problem for -stable port updates, so they should really look at the full
> diff anyway).
> 
> if you're tracking upstream releases reasonably closely, much of the time
> it's not too slow to check over a diff anyway (for autoconf-based projects
> it can save a bit of time to rm any configure scripts and Makefiles before
> diffing).
> 
> what do others think?

Well, as the one who added the shortcut, i think it's valuable for a
start. If there's a better way, like grepping for installed headers in
PLIST and diffing all of them in a single command, why not..

Landry

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