Re: git: b095fb085850 - main - security/amavisd-new: Use USE_GITLAB

On 2022-10-30 22:25, Yuri wrote:
> On 10/30/22 14:05, Thierry Thomas wrote:
>> Yes, portscout does not know how to track commit hashes.
>> 
>> In these cases, I suggest to use some RSS reader: e.g. on the page
>> <https://gitlab.com/amavis/amavis/-/tags>  there is an icon "Tags 
>> feed"
>> <https://gitlab.com/amavis/amavis/-/tags?format=atom>  which should be
>> usuable from any RSS reader.
>> 
>> Another good mean is Repology (by Dmitry Marakasov / amdmi3):
>> <https://repology.org/project/amavis/versions>. Once subscribed as a
>> maintainer, you can get a notifications feed.
> 
> 
> One in-tree solution would be to enhance USE_GITLAB to be able to set
> version-based MASTER_SITES URL for GitLab projects.
> 
> 
> Until such improvement happens I suggest that Daniel reverts this and
> similar changes since they really degrade functionality and don't add
> any benefit.
> 
> 
> 
> Yuri

It's in the works and we preferably want to align the very few ports
left that doesn't already use USE_GITLAB for consistency
and upcoming exp-run. I've shared more details in PR 267104 about it.

I agree it's not ideal however I would still argue that it's better than
having a few ports working around the framework when we do have
functionality in place and working on improving it. As Thierry pointed 
out
there are good alternatives to Portscout in edge cases which several
committers already use.

Best regard,
Daniel