Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:18:15 +0000 (UTC) From: "Helmut Schneider" <jumper99@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bump of PORTREVISION mandatory? Message-ID: <xn0h9nlmv10rkc000@news.gmane.org> References: <xn0h9mifqj6hya003@news.gmane.org> <20110128010433.GC21154@magic.hamla.org>
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Sahil Tandon wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 17:30:45 +0000, Helmut Schneider wrote: > > > with the release of Typo3 4.5, 4.4 becomes "old stable", 4.3 becomes > > "deprecated". Therefore a change at pkg_descr is required. That is > > the only change. > > In such scenarios, please be aware of the following from the Porter's > Handbook: > > "When it makes sense to do so, users can be warned about a pending > port removal with DEPRECATED and EXPIRATION_DATE. The former is > simply a string stating why the port is scheduled for removal; the > latter is a string in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD). Both will be > shown to the user." Good point, I'll add DEPRECATED. Would it make sense to have the making process sleep for a few seconds or have the user to press a key before proceeding? If I didn't wait for the lines I wouldn't really have noticed it.
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