svn commit: r531474 - in head/net: . samba411 samba411/files samba411/files/man

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 12:40:12AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> [corrected one word]
> 
> Am 14.04.20 um 15:47 schrieb Mathieu Arnold:
> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 01:45:39PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 03:42:42PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> >>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 02:00:35AM +0000, Timur I. Bakeyev wrote:
> >>>> New Revision: 531474
> >>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/531474
> >>>>
> >>>> Log:
> >>>>   Add new Samba 4.11 port
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for trying to work on FreeBSD ports, now, this needs to be
> >>> added with a svn cp of a previous version.  Please remove this and add
> >>> it properly.
> >>
> >> This probably applies to `databases/ldb20' as well (r530544).  I've
> >> pinged Timur, but never heard back.
> > 
> > Best would probably to remove those ports in the mean time.
> 
> I'll call that recommendation "damaging" because nobody has shown how
> the resulting package were broken. So why should a - CORRECTION -
> working - END CORRECTION - port be taken
> away from ports users again, with MOVED churn, repo churn and whatnot?
> 
> Other than for a blind ambition of trying to get the last bit of
> metadata correct that bears no *practical* relevance, there is none.
> It's a waste of time and must stop.

The day we switch to git those metadata will be gone, and all the effort
we made to preserve history will be too.
That day is not here though.  Right now, when one add a new version of
an existing port, one MUST do a svn copy.

Thank you for your opinion on our long standing policies about
preserving history though.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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