Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:25:21 -0800 From: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org> To: John Marino <marino@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r408766 - head/ports-mgmt/synth Message-ID: <56C3AFE1.2090900@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <201602122156.u1CLuw2l051276@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201602122156.u1CLuw2l051276@repo.freebsd.org>
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On 2/12/16 1:56 PM, John Marino wrote: > Author: marino > Date: Fri Feb 12 21:56:58 2016 > New Revision: 408766 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/408766 > > Log: > ports-mgmt/synth: Yet another release candidate > > Unfortunately, there's been a bit too much change since 0.99_6 to > confidently release version 1.00, so another release candidate is > necessary. Both new features and bug fixes were added. ... > Modified: head/ports-mgmt/synth/Makefile > ============================================================================== > --- head/ports-mgmt/synth/Makefile Fri Feb 12 21:53:57 2016 (r408765) > +++ head/ports-mgmt/synth/Makefile Fri Feb 12 21:56:58 2016 (r408766) > @@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ > > PORTNAME= synth > PORTVERSION= 0.99 > -PORTREVISION= 6 For the sake of user sanity I highly recommend not dropping beta (or "unreleased") code on them with a PORTREVISION bump. Package users, and most ports users, have no way to know if an updated package is a "release" or a "candidate", etc. They just know there is an update. Releasing huge changes with a PORTREVISION bump is quite surprising for them. A synth-devel fixes this. -- Regards, Bryan Drewery
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