Bumping libreoffice

[Chris Rees]

On 8 February 2013 20:04, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:
> On 08/02/2013 20:08, Chris Rees wrote:
>> On 8 February 2013 18:50, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de> wrote:
>>> Please take note of Porters' Handbook section 5.2.2.1.
>>>
>>> Build fixes are NOT a reason to bump portrevision!
>>
>> Bash completion was also added, so the package did actually change :)
>
> I just have to cite the Porters' Handbook here:
>> A rule of thumb is to ask yourself whether a change committed to a
>> port is something which everyone would benefit from having (either
>> because of an enhancement, fix, or by virtue that the new package
>> will actually work at all), and weigh that against that fact that
>> it will cause everyone who regularly updates their ports tree to be
>> compelled to update. If yes, the PORTREVISION should be bumped.
>
> I don't know who wrote this, but I feel like printing it, putting
> it into a frame and mounting it above my desk. Who ever you are,
> you are a poet, a true master of the craft. Your words fill my mind
> with beauty and serenity!
>
>
> On 08/02/2013 20:08, Chris Rees wrote:
>> Obviously you're annoyed at having to rebuild, and I understand that,
>
> It's more like an itch that I finally scratched, because it's hardly
> the first time that happened.
>
>> but standard practice is to bump whenever the resultant package
>> changes, which in this case it did- up to date packages should be
>> built on the package building machines.
>
> I had an elaborate piece on the extremely frequent and extensive
> command line interaction of the average bash user with libreoffice
> in this place. But I thought I can as well leave that to your
> imagination. :D
>
>> Whether or not the change was *really* worth it is neither here nor
>> there, but I might recommend that you do what I do and simply hold
>> libreoffice (along with other monster ports) and update it manually.
>
> I kinda feel obliged to keep those up to date:
> http://wiki.bsdforen.de/anwendungen/libreoffice_aus_inoffiziellen_paketen

Wow, I've been on the lookout for libreoffice packages for ages-- had
you publicised these before??

Chris