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Subject: Re: NOT installing the .la files
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On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 05:48:18PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> How do we go about changing ports? Do .la-only changes need the
> PORTREVISION bumped because the pkg-plist necessarily changed?

Yes, because it will affect the packages.

> Should we (I'm wearing my porter's hat now), submit .la-only changes?

My own view is that we should change them only if we're already making
some other change in the port, so slowly they'll all be changed (or, of
course, there is already a plist error).  I haven't polled the other
portmgrs.

And new ports should have them.

mcl