[123602] trunk/dports/python/py-astropy/Portfile

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Aug 12, 2014, at 4:01 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Sean Farley wrote:
>>> Anyone who had the previous file, including our automated systems, will now encounter a checksum mismatch. To fix this please follow the recipe for stealth updates:
>>> 
>>> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/PortfileRecipes#stealth-updates
>> 
>> Why isn't this automatically done for revision bumps? This seems like
>> another task that is needlessly manual.
> 
> A revision increase does not imply that a stealth update has occurred. A stealth update is a rare occurrence and port authors must manually indicate in a port when this has happened because how would you suggest we automatically infer that this has happened?

it wouldn't be horrible if setting a revision just changed dist_subdir automatically (even when it's not necessary), which I think is what Sean was suggesting.

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