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Date:      Thu, 04 May 2023 09:03:35 +0200
From:      Jan Beich <jbeich@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Cc:        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:  <ednw-pohk-wny@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20230504084913.343a53331b98999b34eece00@bidouilliste.com> (Emmanuel Vadot's message of "Thu, 4 May 2023 08:49:13 %2B0200")
References:  <202305040547.3445lRJT081049@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <20230504084913.343a53331b98999b34eece00@bidouilliste.com>

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Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> writes:

>  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.

I'm simply following what's recommended by Porter's Handbook. In this
particular port PORTREVISION was bumped in the adjacent commit.

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/makefiles/#makefile-portrevision



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