net/ntopng: version jump by an order of magnitude

Guido Falsi madpilot at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 20 13:54:51 UTC 2018


On 9/20/18 3:44 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> 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.

The d is what is suggested by the porter's handbook.

While I could change it arbitrarily I think leaving the typo is more
intuitive. Anyway no need to change anything till the next update.

-- 
Guido Falsi <madpilot at FreeBSD.org>


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