cvs commit: ports/devel/libvanessa_adt Makefile pkg-plist ports/devel/libvanessa_adt/files patch-ltmain.sh

David O'Brien obrien at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 24 10:11:45 PST 2004


On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 05:57:20PM +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> PORTREVISION should be raised when there's a change (even minor) in the
> package. Axing a file from plist is a good reason for PORTREVISION
> raise.

NO, it's not.  Unless that removed file cause the binary to act
differently.  There is nothing wrong with having a useless file on my
disk, that will get rm'ed when then port is upgraded.  This is exactly
the PORTREVISION churn that shouldn't be happening.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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