From owner-svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Tue Feb 16 23:25:39 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E86CAABFBF; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:25:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bdrewery@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206c::16:87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F7BD1FA5; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:25:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bdrewery@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.xzibition.com (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586FD1B2E; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:25:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bdrewery@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail.xzibition.com (localhost [172.31.3.2]) by mail.xzibition.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 100DE1BAC7; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:25:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.xzibition.com Received: from mail.xzibition.com ([172.31.3.2]) by mail.xzibition.com (mail.xzibition.com [172.31.3.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with LMTP id 6C2e4b0wjbZ4; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:25:36 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: svn commit: r408766 - head/ports-mgmt/synth DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.9.2 mail.xzibition.com C8F8F1BAC0 To: John Marino , ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org References: <201602122156.u1CLuw2l051276@repo.freebsd.org> From: Bryan Drewery Organization: FreeBSD Message-ID: <56C3AFE1.2090900@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:25:21 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <201602122156.u1CLuw2l051276@repo.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 23:25:39 -0000 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