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[Scott Haneda]

Hello, I just received 4 lint reports from an automated system in MacPorts.  Here is one example:

    Change: http://trac.macports.org/changeset/67067
    Portfile: p5-file-readbackwards
    
    Warning: Line 19 seems to hardcode the version number, consider using 
    ${version} instead

Here is the port http://pastie.org/939582

# $Id: Portfile 45733 2009-01-21 01:02:41Z blb at macports.org $
PortSystem 1.0
PortGroup perl5 1.0

perl5.setup             File-ReadBackwards 1.04
maintainers             hostwizard.com:scott

description             This module reads a file backwards line by line.

long_description        It is simple to use, memory efficient and fast. \
			It supports both an object and a tied handle interface. \
										\
			It is intended for processing log and other similar text \
			files which typically have their newest entries appended \
			to them. By default files are assumed to be plain text and \
			have a line ending appropriate to the OS. But you can set \
			the input record separator string on a per file basis.

homepage		http://search.cpan.org/~uri/File-ReadBackwards-1.04/

platforms               darwin

checksums		md5	bda339c8b2e5139649cb28c4b775fb42 \
			sha1	19874cb169f2b105c82222588a163fb17bd77599 \
			rmd160	ab166d1797b0e95ae8990ee583071337bfb54fdf


A couple questions.  Tab stops are set to 8 now, which I never would have done.  How does this happen?  What is the preferred MacPorts tab stops to use?  If I change it, I assume I should do so in two patches, one to fix the version, and one to fix the tab stops?

Is this the correct way to fix this?  Do the p5's usually get a livecheck as well?  Or is there something built into MP's to make it happen, as a port livecheck on this p5 seems to tell me it is up to date with the -d flag in use.

version			1.04
perl5.setup             File-ReadBackwards ${version}
maintainers             hostwizard.com:scott

description             This module reads a file backwards line by line.

long_description        It is simple to use, memory efficient and fast. \
			It supports both an object and a tied handle interface. \
										\
			It is intended for processing log and other similar text \
			files which typically have their newest entries appended \
			to them. By default files are assumed to be plain text and \
			have a line ending appropriate to the OS. But you can set \
			the input record separator string on a per file basis.

homepage		http://search.cpan.org/~uri/File-ReadBackwards-${version}/

platforms               darwin

checksums		md5	bda339c8b2e5139649cb28c4b775fb42 \
			sha1	19874cb169f2b105c82222588a163fb17bd77599 \
			rmd160	ab166d1797b0e95ae8990ee583071337bfb54fdf

Thanks, once I know the right way to deal with this, I will send in the patches for each notification I received.
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