commit:     f16a1ca58fc9761c0a7a65d82c115b3da651f3eb
Author:     Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Wed Jun 23 07:23:24 2021 +0000
Commit:     Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Sat Jul  3 16:18:52 2021 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/devmanual.git/commit/?id=f16a1ca5

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 <AT> gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo.org>

 general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml 
b/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml
index c370d27..395cc7f 100644
--- a/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/text.xml
+++ 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),

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