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From:
Bryan Vyhmeister <bryan@bsdjournal.net>
Subject:
Re: [MAINTAINER UPDATE] textproc/lowdown to 1.1.2
To:
Stuart Henderson <stu@spacehopper.org>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Sun, 13 Oct 2024 12:00:12 -0700

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On Sun, Oct 13, 2024 at 10:28:53AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> check_sym does not show cases where function parameters or structs
> change in an incompatible way (diffing headers is usually the way to
> find those) so it's not perfect, but it's useful for picking up on some
> things you might otherwise miss from checking release notes etc.

That's helpful. So essentially, if check_sym finds differences, there
have definitely been changes to SHARED_LIBS so should be incremented
but, if no changes are detected, it does not necessarily mean that no
SHARED_LIBS changes have happened? Is that correct?

Bryan