HEADS UP: pkg-plist strict enforcement starting

Kirill Ponomarew krion at voodoo.oberon.net
Wed Jan 12 13:29:30 PST 2005


On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 08:14:59AM +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 01:08:36PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > For the past month I've been sending warnings to maintainers of ports
> > that have broken pkg-plists (i.e. leave behind files after
> > deinstallation).  Now that we've passed the 4.11-RELEASE freeze, it's
> > a good time to take this to the next level and begin phasing in strict
> > enforcement of pkg-plist correctness.
> 
> Please have a look at ports/75379:
> 	bsd.port.mk / add-plist-docs is too relaxed

Well, the problem described seems to be software specific and can be
easily patched.  There are rare cases when described mess happens.

-Kirill
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