svn commit: r535526 - in head: . sysutils sysutils/py-rdiff-backup sysutils/py-rdiff-backup/files sysutils/rdiff-backup

[Mathieu Arnold]

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 04:59:05PM +0200, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> Mathieu Arnold <mat at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 08:35:20AM +0000, Hiroki Tagato wrote:
> > >   - Rename portname to py-rdiff-backup following Python Ports
> > > Policy[1]
> > 
> > This feels like a very bad idea, for more than one reason.
> 
> This was reviewed in (you subscribed too):
> 
> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D24816
> 
> > - This renamed the package, so once again, it left users running pkg
> >   upgrade with an outdated version.  Unless they notice it and figure
> >   out what the new name of the port is.
> > - This looks like a end user tool, so, people will want to install
> >   rdiff-backup, not pyxy-rdiff-backup.
> > 
> > All in all, I think the rename should be backed out.
> 
> koobs reasoning made sense to me but I don't mind renaming the port
> again if there is a final consensus.

I don't know the reasoning, but anything that 1) breaks the normal
upgrade path, and 2) makes it non trivial to figure out the name of the
package, must have a flaw somewhere.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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