Bumping libreoffice

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 08/02/2013 21:16, Chris Rees wrote:
> 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??

Yes, just recently on ports at . And Yamagi did mid 2012ish.

It all began with OOo package sharing in 2007:
http://www.bsdforen.de/showthread.php?t=17403

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