[Slackbuilds-users] Updates - 20221223.1

[B. Watson]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2022, Alexander Verbovetsky wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 10:28:04AM +0700, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>
>> libraries/leptopnica: Updated for version 1.83.0.
>
> This breaks graphics/tesseract. Can be fixed by straightforward bumping
> the tesseract version from 5.0.1 to 5.3.0 (the support for latest
> releases of leptonica is mentioned in the changelog for 5.2.0).

Do people not even check to see if their updates break the builds that
depend on it?

Open letter to all maintainers: before you submit an update, look
up your build using the reverse dependency search on the "Advanced
Search" page here: https://slackbuilds.org/advsearch.php

For leptonica, this shows 2 builds: jbi2genc and tesseract. These
are exactly the ones that got broken by the update...

*Test* the dependees with your updated build before submitting it.
If it breaks something, the *least* you can do is notify the
maintainers of the builds you're about to break. Even better if you
fix the breakage in their builds and *send them patches*.