Date: Thu, 4 May 2023 13:47:21 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> Cc: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>, Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org Subject: Re: git: 688aaad7506f - main - multimedia/baka-mplayer: drop maintainership Message-ID: <ljzirlvi673kvyn4c4ax6pzaoxpbcf3excvea6r5kjnjhvzkf7@i3sqgjk4dvez> In-Reply-To: <ZFNyI8xdJD1qMksM@FreeBSD.org> References: <202305040547.3445lRJT081049@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20230504084913.343a53331b98999b34eece00@bidouilliste.com> <ZFNyI8xdJD1qMksM@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 08:51:47AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 08:49:13AM +0200, Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > > ... > > Dropping maintainership should also bump PORTREVISION for those > > reasons: > > > > 1/ Package metadata changed so the checksum changed, even if we are > > really bad at reproducible build we should do the best we can for it. > > 2/ Users will not be warned that the port isn't maintained anymore as > > the version didn't changed so the package will not be updated on their > > machine. > > We suffer quite a lot already from needless port revision bumps, please > don't fuel this fire. These are not good enough reasons for force folks > to rebuild their perfectly fine packages. We only bump when there was > something really wrong with the previous package. Manu is right and you are not here, the point here is for binary packages to get rebuild and so users have the right maintainer to send an email to as a maintainer on their installed system if needed. > > The only problem with these commits that they were per-port and thus > generated some needless spam. > > ./danfe
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