On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 9:32 PM Kubilay Kocak <ko...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 20/09/2018 6:40 am, Franco Fichtner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Small question: > > > > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/0585180d > > > > ... has a typo in the version number which was an ISO date > > originally. Are we using this new date format now or is there > > going to be a PORTEPOCH amendment? > > Up to the maintainer ultimately. > > To avoid PORTEPOCH, either the typo'd datestamp scheme (0XX for month) > would need to continue until 3.7, or an alternate scheme created that is > both meaningful and > than (pkg version -t old new) the current value. > > Or fix the typo and add PORTEPOCH. > > Personally, I'd go the first option as it's only a minor typo that > doesn't affect ongoing existing-scheme version updates, and is the more > transient of the two (PORTEPOCH lives forever, bad scheme only lasts > till 3.7). > > > > > Cheers, > > Franco
The 'd' is arbitrary. If a different, higher letter were used, the date could be fixed. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger ad...@adamw.org https://www.adamw.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
