Dealing with False Positive during Livecheck

[Perry E. Metzger]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:25:16 +0530 Jackson Isaac
<ijackson at macports.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Recently I took upon a journey to try to update ports
> which are tagged as 'nomaintainer' and noticed that
> some of the ports give out false positives during livecheck.
> 
> This is due to the reason that upstream decided to tag a
> newer version without actually updating the code / tarball.
> Also the upstream seem to be inactive since the last changes
> were made >5 years ago.
> 
> Few of the ports that I have noticed till now are:
> 1. aacgain
> 2. chemtool
> 
> I will be updating the list and probably put it up on wiki, so that
> in future we don't spend time looking for the updated tarballs.

Rather than putting this in the Wiki, is there a way to fix the
Portfile so that we don't get a false positive trigger? Then people
don't have to manually consider the problem.

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com