git: 9a34ad5a4907 - main - category/port: Package name dependencies do not support globbing.

Mathieu Arnold mat at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 8 14:26:01 UTC 2021


On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 04:54:59PM -0700, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 6/7/2021 4:36 PM, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > Being social and communicative is .. well, it's a social matter. And ports 
> > commits *generally* apply to one port, but not always. So there's a judgement 
> > call when to write
> > 	<category>/<port>: <summary>
> > and when to use some other subject / summary line, like
> > 	KDE: make ecm a build-dep everywhere
> 
> According to the documentation (the hook message and committer guide),
> "KDE:" is invalid even though it seems reasonable.
> 
> If we want this "*" hack to be a thing it should be documented. Rather
> than this hack we could use something more meaningful to HUMANS like
> "Various:" or "Mk:".

KDE: is perfectly valid, *: is too, to be exact, /^\w+:/ is valid.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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