Batch replace for livecheck.type and svn.revision

[Rainer Müller]

On 2009-09-02 17:46 , Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 
> On Sep 2, 2009, at 07:51, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> Note that we already crippled MacPorts for users of 1.7.1 and  
>> earlier on August 29 by adding license info to 35 ports, including  
>> openssl (which has 274 dependents) and most of the gcc ports (50  
>> dependents). We've set livecheck.type in git-core, so anything that  
>> fetches via git won't work (13 ports). Before realizing the  
>> implications, I used depends_extract in pango, thus making  
>> unavailable on 1.7.1 it and all its dependents (30 ports) -- one of  
>> which is gtk2 (219 dependents). We could undo these changes now and  
>> redo them at a later time, but really I would rather focus on moving  
>> forward with 1.8.0.
> 
> I agree.  Let's keep moving forward.  In the future, perhaps we should  
> wait a week after a new release, but now that it's done, let's not  
> back track.

Okay, we just need to remember next time that we should discuss this
before doing the release :-)

Rainer