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

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 5, 2009, at 16:05, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

>> 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.

All I'm saying is that the situation we have is not working. This is  
not the first time someone has run "port lint", thought they should  
change something because "port lint" said it was deprecated, but this  
ended up breaking the port for anyone not running trunk.

My vote would be for "port lint" not printing a message until after  
1.8.0 is released. That would avoid the problem. We can mark these  
things as deprecated after that, and make the message appear for  
users in 1.8.1.