bump of PORTREVISION mandatory?
Helmut Schneider
jumper99 at gmx.de
Fri Jan 28 10:18:29 UTC 2011
Sahil Tandon wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 17:30:45 +0000, Helmut Schneider wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> In such scenarios, please be aware of the following from the Porter's
> Handbook:
>
> "When it makes sense to do so, users can be warned about a pending
> port removal with DEPRECATED and EXPIRATION_DATE. The former is
> simply a string stating why the port is scheduled for removal; the
> latter is a string in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD). Both will be
> shown to the user."
Good point, I'll add DEPRECATED.
Would it make sense to have the making process sleep for a few seconds
or have the user to press a key before proceeding? If I didn't wait for
the lines I wouldn't really have noticed it.
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