On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 12:28:25PM +0100, Paco Esteban wrote: > oh, that did not occur to me ... You mean that if port foo/bar gets > EPOCH = 0, then all dependent ports should change it's dependencies > declarations from foo/bar>=1.1 to foo/bar>=1.1v0 ??
Yes, that's the main reason that led to introducing PKGSPEC in bsd.port.mk and tweaking _print-metadata, so we didn't hav to change every dependent port. You still need to bump REVISION in dependent port when you change PKGSPEC though.