Advice on dealing with upgraded devel port?

[Pav Lucistnik]

V út, 02. 03. 2004 v 23:55, Craig Boston píše:

> Hi, I'm a little new at port maintership, and I'd appreciate some tips on the 
> best way to handle an upgrade to stable/devel ports.
> 
> The current situation is:
> 
> audio/audacity:    contains audacity 1.0.0 release (previous stable version)
> audio/audacity-devel:    audacity 1.2.0pre3 (development version, was 
> repocopied from audio/audacity before being changed to 1.2.0)
> 
> Now that 1.2.0 has been formally released, what is the best way to handle an 
> upgrade such as this:
> 
> Remove audacity and repocopy the devel version to it before upgrading?

No,

> Keep the old one around somewhere in case somebody needs it for some odd 
> reason?

that's taken care by cvs automagically,

> Or just commit patches to upgrade audacity and remove the devel one 
> altogether?

Yes! This is the way it's usually done.

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