port release candidate versioning question

Arno Hautala arno at alum.wpi.edu
Mon Aug 17 22:18:22 UTC 2020


> On 17 Aug 2020, at 17:22, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
> 
> What is the benefit to anyone in being able to presume (but of course not to know for certain without inspecting the git log/blame) that the epoch was last changed in the port 15 years ago?
> 
> I updated the guide 9 years ago with the recommendation not to format the epoch as a date.
> 
> https://github.com/macports/macports-guide/commit/f0f255450b5ddcc5a5fc7cbe7fc61a6a942e3773

Yep, that makes sense. And thanks for the pointer to the guide.

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