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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:22:44 -0500
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r465241 - in head/converters: . lua51-iconv
Message-ID:  <1521732164.238941.1312421488.452547A0@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <y3il-2i7f-wny@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201803212136.w2LLaFDt005263@repo.freebsd.org> <y3il-2i7f-wny@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, Mar 21, 2018, at 17:10, Jan Beich wrote:
> Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > Author: feld
> > Date: Wed Mar 21 21:36:14 2018
> > New Revision: 465241
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/465241
> >
> > Log:
> >   Add a lua 5.1 copy of lua-iconv per user request
> >   
> >   When we gain flavors for lua these special copies of the ports can go
> >   away
> > Added:
> >   head/converters/lua51-iconv/
> >      - copied from r464525, head/converters/lua-iconv/
> 
> Not a slave port? If so, expect versioned and non-versioned ports to
> grow out of sync, complicating flavors conversion in future.
> 

The others are also copies and not slaves, IIRC. I made a couple for previous requests.

I checked the commit history and this thing was last updated Jan 13 2014. I expect we will have these as FLAVORS before they have a chance to get out of sync.

This was a conscious decision. I know it's an ugly wart. All of the lua5x-foo ports are. :-(

-- 
  Mark Felder
  ports-secteam & portmgr member
  feld@FreeBSD.org



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