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Date:      Tue, 6 Sep 2022 11:31:28 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, portmgr <portmgr@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP: Upcoming move of WWW definitions in all ports
Message-ID:  <YxeSAKcNiRtsmy/p@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <8a896af9-b41e-d939-c71c-3b0b6b8366b6@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <8a896af9-b41e-d939-c71c-3b0b6b8366b6@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tue, Sep 06, 2022 at 08:09:24PM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote:
> PortMgr has just accepted a change that has been in the making for some time:
> 
> The move of the "WWW:" entries at the end of the ports' pkg-descr files into
> the ports' Makefiles in the form of "WWW=" definitions.
> 
> The WWW lines will be put into the maintainer block, immediately following
> the MAINTAINER and COMMENT lines.
> 
> If there is more than one WWW: line a pkg-descr file, one URL will be
> selected to be moved into the Makefile, the other URLs will get a label
> "See also:" instead of "WWW:".
> 

You've told us the "What" and suggested a "When".  So, what is
the "Why?"

% find . -name pkg-descr -maxdepth 3 | wc -l
   29110
% find . -name Makefile -maxdepth 3 | wc -l
   30343

Assuming 90% of the files are touched, 54000 files suffering cosmetic churn?

-- 
Steve



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