> > Your understanding is correct. We may of course end up supporting more than > > one release at the same time (let's say 1.16 is released one year after > > 1.15, then both will be supported for two years). > > This bastille means that there will be two LTS versions for quite some time > and I cannot maintain both 1.15 and 1.16 in the LTS port, of course. > > > Without me fully understanding the FreeBSD port system it does seem like a > > good idea to merge them - the -lts designation won't make any sense. > > Both ports can live side by side, but cannot be installed simultaneously, > given that there are ports depending on this, you have to configure you > preference in make.conf. > > From your explanation I would actually need to take the opposite approach. > All releases are LTS ones and I can drop devel/subversion and keep > devel/subversion-lts only, no?
IMO not having a port that is named as just 'subversion' and letting users to pick 'subversion-lts' instead might be slightly confusing. Can subversion-lts be an alias to subversion? -- Timofei Zhakov
