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authorSam James <sam@gentoo.org>2021-06-23 08:23:24 +0100
committerUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2021-07-03 18:18:52 +0200
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parentkeywording: mention un-CCing arches if making substantial changes to list (diff)
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general-concepts/ebuild-revisions: add 'subscribing with :=' as revbump reason
A revision bump is needed for a rebuild to occur when e.g. ABI is broken. Without doing this, we're relying on Portage's preserve-libs feature which does not have to be enabled and is not specified by PMS. Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>
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diff --git a/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml b/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml
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+++ b/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ of thumb could be used as a guideline:
<li>adding a patch to fix a runtime issue,</li>
<li>installing additional files that could be useful to the user,</li>
<li>adding a missing runtime dependency to one of the existing blocks,</li>
+ <li>adding a binding subslot operator (:=) to a dependency,</li>
<li>
adding a missing build-time dependency that contributed to
a successfully yet incorrect build (e.g. missing some feature),