Batch replace for livecheck.type and svn.revision

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Maybe there can be a note in the parse-error notification for users:

Sometime a parse error can occur when features of a new MacPorts  
release are included in Portfiles.  Please run 'sudo port -v  
selfupdate' to ensure you have the latest MacPorts base distribution.

On Sep 2, 2009, at 08:51, Rainer Müller wrote:

> 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