[51868] trunk/dports/devel/git-core/Portfile

[Bryan Blackburn]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 03:49:51PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt said:
>
> On Jun 5, 2009, at 15:38, toby at macports.org wrote:
>
>> -livecheck.check         regex
>> +livecheck.type          regex
>
> You can't change livecheck.check to livecheck.type just yet, because  
> livecheck.type is only in trunk. Users of 1.7.x will now see:
>
> Can't map the URL 'file://.' to a port description file ("invalid command 
> name "livecheck.type"").
> Please verify that the directory and portfile syntax are correct.
> To use the current port, you must be in a port's directory.
> (you might also see this message if a pseudo-port such as
> outdated or installed expands to no ports).

Already fixed in r51870.

>
> As with svn.revision, I must ask: why have we set up port lint to state 
> that livecheck.check is deprecated, when *it is not deprecated yet*? I 
> love that we have fixed the naming of svn.tag and livecheck.check, but we 
> *cannot* mark an old feature as deprecated until we release a version of 
> the software containing the replacement feature.

It's only deprecated on trunk, but lint on the server of course isn't just
1.7.  If you're suggesting we don't deprecate it until 1.8 is released, then
the deprecation stuff wouldn't be all that well tested.

Bryan