Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 07:44:13 -0600 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org> To: koobs@freebsd.org Cc: franco@lastsummer.de, ports@freebsd.org, madpilot@freebsd.org Subject: Re: net/ntopng: version jump by an order of magnitude Message-ID: <CAP7rwcjXUuCUTTP9wXRZyiPkPHZC823_R-6wF6x4fa_osp3Gzw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <cd6bfc78-8006-0333-0832-ad0095cce921@FreeBSD.org> References: <044E02B5-BE6D-4D90-96A4-B2C555707F1C@lastsummer.de> <cd6bfc78-8006-0333-0832-ad0095cce921@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 9:32 PM Kubilay Kocak <koobs@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 20/09/2018 6:40 am, Franco Fichtner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Small question: > > > > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/0585180d > > > > ... has a typo in the version number which was an ISO date > > originally. Are we using this new date format now or is there > > going to be a PORTEPOCH amendment? > > Up to the maintainer ultimately. > > To avoid PORTEPOCH, either the typo'd datestamp scheme (0XX for month) > would need to continue until 3.7, or an alternate scheme created that is > both meaningful and > than (pkg version -t old new) the current value. > > Or fix the typo and add PORTEPOCH. > > Personally, I'd go the first option as it's only a minor typo that > doesn't affect ongoing existing-scheme version updates, and is the more > transient of the two (PORTEPOCH lives forever, bad scheme only lasts > till 3.7). > > > > > Cheers, > > Franco The 'd' is arbitrary. If a different, higher letter were used, the date could be fixed. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org
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