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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:43:18 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/bison Makefile distinfo ports/devel/bison/files patch-getargs.c patch-reader.c
Message-ID:  <20011210194318.A16652@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011210222737.J30626@squall.waterspout.com>; from will@csociety.org on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:27:37PM -0500
References:  <200112110158.fBB1wXA84599@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011210222737.J30626@squall.waterspout.com>

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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 10:27:37PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:58:33PM -0800, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> >   Log:
> >   This PORTEPOCH for life crap is stupid.
> >   Back out the downgrade, I would have never agreed to it if I had know...
> >   This leaves a window of downgradededness 18 hours -- people can just live
> >   with that.
> 
> Once rules are set, you're not supposed to break them.  If you
> have a problem with the rule, bring it up on ports@ and suggest a
> better way to do things.  The fact is we need PORTEPOCH to ensure
> forward versioning always.  Please put it back in this port.

Explain what it does to the processing?  PORTEPOCH was added for the case
of PORTVERSION=20011210 going to PORTVERSION=2.3 -- an obvious change in
the version number scheme.  It seems you are trying to take a statement
that was said under the assumption of my example above to be absolute
irregardless of situation.  From the two comments from you and sobomax, I
am starting to think no one knows how PORTEPOCH is processed and exactly
what it affects.

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