bump of PORTREVISION mandatory?

Scot Hetzel swhetzel at gmail.com
Thu Jan 27 22:18:09 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Helmut Schneider <jumper99 at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with the release of Typo3 4.5, 4.4 becomes "old stable", 4.3 becomes
> "deprecated". Therefore a change at pkg_descr is required. That is the
> only change.
>
> Do I need to bump PORTREVISION before I submit the updated port? Is
> that mandatory?
>
> I don't like the idea that someone is asked to update his/her installed
> package only because of a changed pkg_descr.
>
There is not need to bump PORTREVISION for simple changes.  The only
time a PORTREVISION bump is required is when it fixes a security
problem, or when a library the port depends on changes.

Scot


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