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Date:      Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:25:52 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Patrick Li <pat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Committing ports with bad PORTVERSION strings (Re: cvs commit: ports/korean/pycodec Makefile distinfo)
Message-ID:  <20020306202552.A15656@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020306202126.A78762@FreeBSD.org>; from pat@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:21:26PM -0800
References:  <200203070304.g2734p815506@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020306192750.A13315@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020306202126.A78762@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 08:21:26PM -0800, Patrick Li wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 07:27:50PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > We need to teach committers not to commit ports with nonconforming
> > version numbers.  Does portlint catch this kind of mistake, or do we
> > need to update it?
> Yeah portlint does catch illegal PORTVERSION strings.
>=20
> Example:
> 	FATAL: PORTVERSION looks illegal. should modify "3.1.0.8.0beta".

I wonder what the best way to "encourage" people to not use silly
version numbers would be.  Requiring each port to pass portlint might
be a bit stringent, but perhaps we could add a version check to the
pre-commit check for ports?

Does anyone want to look into this?

Kris

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