bash and bashdb ports

[Rainer Müller]

On 21/05/2021 14.48, Giuseppe 'ferdy' Miceli wrote:
> could someone be so kind to enlighten me about the bash port?
> 
> if i am not mistaken the bash50 sub-port is obsolete and could be removed.
> 
> i stumbled on it while installing bashdb which depends on bash50 which conflicts with bash.
> 
> i worked around changing in my local repository the dependency from bash50 to bash and was about to PR the modified bash and bashdb ports, but frankly speaking i do not know if that would be the right think to do.
> 
> thank you very much in advance,

bashdb is not compatible with bash >= 5.0 and fails to build. This is
the only reason the bash50 subport still exists.

The situation has often been like this in the past and it took some time
until bashdb caught up to the latest bash release.

Rainer