Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:16:41 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "# Version required:" Message-ID: <20000321171641.A41941@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <vqc3dqwlcmx.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>; from asami@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:51:50PM -0800 References: <20000212180205.A42274@dragon.nuxi.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002121805560.88574-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <86puu1prj4.wl@daemon.local.idaemons.org> <vqc3dqwlcmx.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 10:20:45AM -0800, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> Yes. Sorry if I wasn't clear, but it was not a decision, just a hint
> on what might come in the future. The handbook and portlint still
> clearly object to this. I certainly didn't mean people can go change
> some subset of ports, that will make the ports tree inconsistent with
> itself.
>
> When a change like this is proposed, this is how we proceed:
>
> (1) we discuss the change, propose modifications, review patches, etc.
I propose the following patches, which remove the "# Version required: x.y"
comment as it is typically out of date, and tells nothing useful about
the port. [In my 5 years doing ports, I've never gotten one ounce of
useful information from this comment line]
I see no need to make any decision on the outcome of any new port knobs
(such as PACAGE= and VERSION=) a requirement on us agreeing to apply
these two patches.
Index: chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/ports/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.91
diff -u -r1.91 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml 2000/03/17 16:46:01 1.91
+++ chapter.sgml 2000/03/22 00:53:50
@@ -1023,7 +1023,6 @@
<programlisting>
# New ports collection makefile for: oneko
-# Version required: 1.1b
# Date created: 5 December 1994
# Whom: asami
#
@@ -4034,8 +4033,6 @@
<programlisting>
[the header...just to make it easier for us to identify the ports.]
# New ports collection makefile for: xdvi
-[the version required header should updated when upgrading a port.]
-# Version required: pl18 [things like "1.5alpha" are fine here too]
[this is the date when the first version of this Makefile was created.
Never change this when doing an update of the port.]
# Date created: 26 May 1995
Index: portlint.pl
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/devel/portlint/src/portlint.pl,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -r1.15 portlint.pl
--- portlint.pl 2000/03/20 18:03:01 1.15
+++ portlint.pl 2000/03/22 01:06:36
@@ -635,7 +635,6 @@
print "OK: checking comment section of $file.\n" if ($verbose);
@linestocheck = split("\n", <<EOF);
Whom
-Version [rR]equired
Date [cC]reated
EOF
if ($osname eq 'NetBSD') {
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