Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:56:47 -0800 From: Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-doc-all@freebsd.org, doc-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 481fce462d - main - Document various missing __FreeBSD_version values. Message-ID: <CAM5tNy7t=6_Enzs8qHVVNFJQE=Af3JOxUtbqCVbUeddaG3N7xA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <987ad115-9c14-4f5e-8e1d-ef69f84afd9e@FreeBSD.org> References: <69447e71.46420.2787bc4a@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <f94be1b6-5441-4930-95f7-c5546664f144@FreeBSD.org> <CAM5tNy7OiEXL6F%2BFyGA7rdwHsimLiATLmUWW=Hnb_n2y0EQK-A@mail.gmail.com> <987ad115-9c14-4f5e-8e1d-ef69f84afd9e@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 12/18/25 17:53, Rick Macklem wrote: > > I'm guilty. But someone said that it should only be bumped > > if no one else has bumped it recently. (Within a few days?) > > > > If it isn't getting bumped for every change, the document > > is basically useless, isn't it? > > The main reason it is documented in the porter's handbook is so that if ports > need to use conditional logic, this is a reference to which versions to use. > > Ports doesn't need perfect granularity (especially on main), just something > that is "close", hence why bumping more often than, say, once a day is > probably overkill. Well, for my case it is inevitably "the internal KAPI between the NFS modules have changed and all of hem need to be rebuilt from sources". (Since this cannot affect any port, does it make sense to document it?) I do put entries in UPDATING. rick > > -- > John Baldwin >home | help
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