[144564] trunk/dports

[David Evans]

On 1/12/16 1:59 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 12 January 2016 at 22:36, David Evans <devans at macports.org> wrote:
>> On 1/12/16 1:17 PM, mojca at macports.org wrote:
>>> Revision
>>>     144564 <https://trac.macports.org/changeset/144564>
>>> Author
>>>     mojca at macports.org
>>> Date
>>>     2016-01-12 13:17:36 -0800 (Tue, 12 Jan 2016)
>>>
>>>       Log Message
>>>
>>> remove perl5_16..5_20 variants from perl dependents (#50245)
>>>
>>
>> Mojca --
>>
>> You really need to removed the p5.* subports first and add them to
>> p5-graveyard so that they will update to p5.22 before removing
>> variants.
> 
> OK, sorry, maybe I got the order of commits a bit wrong, but:
> - If we would remove subports before we remove the variants, we would
> end up with invalid ports, depending on no longer existing ports (if
> what you say is true, then we have a chicken and egg problem anyway,
> so there's not much we can/could do anyway).
> - I have the graveyard port ready.

Now that you have removed the subports, you need to commit p5-graveyard
to enable the replaced_by mechanism so that the old ports will update
properly.

> 
> (I'm only slightly inclined to wait a tiny bit until the buildbots
> have cought up with the history, else other unsuspected committers
> will be unable to extract whether anything was wrong with their
> commits.)

Sorry, I don't understand.

Dave