Re: git: 11e51925413b - main - devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL: Update to 0.08

From: Renato Botelho <garga_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:08:45 UTC
On 18/08/23 15:52, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-08-18 at 14:32, Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 17/08/23 10:37, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2023-08-17 at 10:15, Renato Botelho <garga@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>>>> On 16/08/23 15:36, Po-Chuan Hsieh wrote:
>>>>> The branch main has been updated by sunpoet:
>>>>> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/ports/commit/?id=11e51925413b7090544d4a4ac449c364717f7e50
>>>>> commit 11e51925413b7090544d4a4ac449c364717f7e50
>>>>> Author:     Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>
>>>>> AuthorDate: 2023-08-16 18:16:29 +0000
>>>>> Commit:     Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@FreeBSD.org>
>>>>> CommitDate: 2023-08-16 18:26:21 +0000
>>>>>        devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL: Update to 0.08
>>>>>             Changes:        https://metacpan.org/dist/DateTime-Format-MySQL/changes
>>>>> ---
>>>>>     devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/Makefile | 2 +-
>>>>>     devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/distinfo | 6 +++---
>>>>>     2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>> diff --git a/devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/Makefile b/devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/Makefile
>>>>> index 989d481a74d2..f9b0e03be278 100644
>>>>> --- a/devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/Makefile
>>>>> +++ b/devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/Makefile
>>>>> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
>>>>>     PORTNAME=	DateTime-Format-MySQL
>>>>> -PORTVERSION=	0.0701
>>>>> +PORTVERSION=	0.08
> 
>>>> Hello Po-Chuan!
> 
>>>> 0.08 is smaller than 0.0701 so port version went backwards after this change.
>>> 0.08 is greater than 0.0701, but not according to pkg version.
>>> 	% pkg version -t 0.08 0.0701
>>>           <
> 
>> Actually pkg is correct in this case.  Numerically 8 is smaller than 701.  I tested it on Ubuntu and dpkg --compare-versions has the same result, and I believe any other package management tool will do.
> 
>> What seems to be wrong is the version schema used by this project.  It should be 0.0800 instead of 0.08.
> 
> I didn't mean to suggest that pkg is wrong, but just pointing out that numerically, 0.08, which is equal to 0.0800, is greater than 0.0701.  This could be a source of confusion for anyone who assumes that the comparison of version numbers works the same as comparisons of real numbers.

Anyway, can you please fix the port by adding PORTEPOCH?

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Renato Botelho