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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:04:23 +0100
From:      Vsevolod Stakhov <vsevolod@highsecure.ru>
To:        Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, vsevolod@highsecure.ru
Subject:   Re: port renaming
Message-ID:  <CAFb6gngdDLLDiQU%2BwmYE17zmuo3YU=_e_7ruvDVufxGmQuk1=A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <55A7B826.2060609@citrin.ru>
References:  <55A7B826.2060609@citrin.ru>

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On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Anton Yuzhaninov <citrin@citrin.ru> wrote:
>
> Port maintainers and port commiters, when PORTNAME/PKGNAMEPREFIX/PKGNAMESUFFIX is changed, please note this change in commit log and for important ports also in /usr/ports/UPDATING. Any rename affect at leas some of FreeBSD users and
>
> Depends in our local ports was broken and I spent some time to figure out why.
> It turns out, that PORTNAME for graphics/gd was changed in r324437.
> No singe word about this rename was added to commit message or UPDATING...

>From the perspective of pkg things are even worse, as pkg can no
longer detect that the renamed package is a replacement for some
existing one. It breaks many stuff and solver could hardly help to
resolve this in a pain-less matter. We need something like 'Replace'
or 'Obsolete' field badly. 'UPDATING' does NOT help to solve this task
at all.



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