ports/66892: possible bug in philosophy of ports/MOVED
Oliver Eikemeier
eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Wed May 19 16:20:36 UTC 2004
The following reply was made to PR ports/66892; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com>
To: Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, dan at langille.org,
portmgr at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/66892: possible bug in philosophy of ports/MOVED
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 18:15:06 +0200
Mark Linimon wrote:
> I guess I can work around this in portsmon ... somehow. But
> shouldn't there be some kind of notation added to MOVED when
> something gets reintroduced? (I can imagine this problem
> affecting FreshPorts as well).
Yep. I don't know what to check for in MOVEDlint, and I'm not sure what
the proper semantics are: has OpenLDAP 2.0 moved to OpenLDAP 2.1, or
is it simply deleted?
We have to clarify that for MOVED to be useful for automated tools.
-Oliver
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