net/ntopng: version jump by an order of magnitude

[Adam Weinberger]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 9:32 PM Kubilay Kocak <koobs at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On 20/09/2018 6:40 am, Franco Fichtner wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Small question:
> >
> > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-ports/commit/0585180d
> >
> > ... has a typo in the version number which was an ISO date
> > originally.  Are we using this new date format now or is there
> > going to be a PORTEPOCH amendment?
>
> Up to the maintainer ultimately.
>
> To avoid PORTEPOCH, either the typo'd datestamp scheme (0XX for month)
> would need to continue until 3.7, or an alternate scheme created that is
> both meaningful and > than (pkg version -t old new) the current value.
>
> Or fix the typo and add PORTEPOCH.
>
> Personally, I'd go the first option as it's only a minor typo that
> doesn't affect ongoing existing-scheme version updates, and is the more
> transient of the two (PORTEPOCH lives forever, bad scheme only lasts
> till 3.7).
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Franco

The 'd' is arbitrary. If a different, higher letter were used, the
date could be fixed.

# Adam


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