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Date:      Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:34:47 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@qubesoft.com>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
Cc:        OKAZAKI Tetsurou <okazaki@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/graphics/aalib
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102021134300.54298-100000@doug02.qubesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010202132926.H328@ringworld.oblivion.bg>

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On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:23:00AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, OKAZAKI Tetsurou wrote:
> > 
> > > In the message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102011534520.40842-100000@doug02.qubesoft.com> 
> > > Doug Rabson <dfr@qubesoft.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I want to add the following minor patch to the aalib port. It corrects a
> > > > typo in the header file which prevents aalib from being used from C++
> > > > code. Any comments?
> > > 
> > > This deserves to up PORTREVISION, doesn't it?
> > 
> > I don't fully understand the uses of PORTREVISION but I doubt if it needs
> > to be changed. This patch won't affect any existing C users of the port
> > and it was previously impossible to use from C++ so there can't be any
> > existing C++ users.
> 
> True, but this shall indicate to any *potential* C++ users that something
> about the port has changed, and they might even take a peek at the logs
> to see exactly what changed.
> 
> There are those like me who run cvsup with -L 2, and then read the output;
> and then there are those who don't :)  It's for their benefit that
> PORTREVISION exists - so that pkg_version can tell them that something
> important changed, and they should spend some time wondering exactly what
> it was :)

So I should increment PORTREVISION?

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@qubesoft.com
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