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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:33:58 -0430
From:      Andres Perera <andres.perera@zoho.com>
To:        David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Proposal for new UPDATING format
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:43 PM, David DEMELIER
<demelier.david@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not a bad idea, the problem is that the file UPDATING does not speak
> always for a package, sometime it's just some information that are not
> specific to a package.
>

Well, that could be addressed by having a stricter way of populating
AFFECTS. Either category/port-version or category/ to express that it
affects more than one. Global concerns can be aptly named "all" and be
filtered by the tool by date.

Until a more machine parsable format is established throughout the
fields, I think it'd be good to formalize VERSION since the entries
usually end up mentioning the version anyway -- just not in a fashion
that tools can easily extract.

Andres

> --
> Demelier David
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