Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:54:47 +0200 From: Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> To: Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>, koobs@freebsd.org Cc: franco@lastsummer.de, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: net/ntopng: version jump by an order of magnitude Message-ID: <effef876-d67f-f2ec-9d1b-211333c9a823@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAP7rwcjXUuCUTTP9wXRZyiPkPHZC823_R-6wF6x4fa_osp3Gzw@mail.gmail.com> References: <044E02B5-BE6D-4D90-96A4-B2C555707F1C@lastsummer.de> <cd6bfc78-8006-0333-0832-ad0095cce921@FreeBSD.org> <CAP7rwcjXUuCUTTP9wXRZyiPkPHZC823_R-6wF6x4fa_osp3Gzw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 9/20/18 3:44 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote: > 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. The d is what is suggested by the porter's handbook. While I could change it arbitrarily I think leaving the typo is more intuitive. Anyway no need to change anything till the next update. -- Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>
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