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Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> writes:

> Is there any particular scheme for ports using decimals, commas, and/or
> underscores in the version numbers?  Is there any way to tell if it means a
> patch level, a FreeBSD-port only update, and so on?

Sure.  See the Porters' Handbook.

Also look at the checkin comments for the port Makefile...