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Date:      28 Aug 2000 13:06:14 -0700
From:      asami@FreeBSD.org (Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami)
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/databases/p5-DBD-Pg Makefile ports/databases/p5-Pg Makefile ports/databases/pgaccess Makefile ports/databases/py-PyGreSQL Makefile
Message-ID:  <vqcg0np40cp.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: Steve Price's message of "Sun, 27 Aug 2000 11:05:49 -0500"
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 * From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>

 * On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 11:50:31AM -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote:
 * # 
 * # The right way to do this (again) would have been to retire
 * # postgresql7 and upgrade postgresql to version 7.
 * 
 * FWIW I agree that this would have been the more desirable way.

Unfortunately, we have to do it the (current) way because of the way
CVS works.  If we branch to postgres/postgres7, then the version
history will accumulate in postgres7, and merging it back to postgres
will make us lose all of that.  (Unless someone wants to go through
the CVS logs and merge all revisions to postgres.)

That is why we generally leave the "<port>N" version after the port is
officially upgraded to version N.

On the other hand, when we have an "experimental" (or "development" or
whatever) version where we don't care much about the history of that
part, we branch it off as "<port>-devel" with the intention of just
merging back at the point the new version becomes stable.

Satoshi


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