[MacPorts] #37641: couchdb-devel @1.3.0a1177555 Project moved to git

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#37641: couchdb-devel @1.3.0a1177555 Project moved to git
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  Reporter:  jeff-macports@…  |      Owner:  ryandesign@…
      Type:  update           |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal           |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports            |    Version:  2.1.2
Resolution:                   |   Keywords:  haspatch
      Port:  couchdb-devel    |
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Comment (by jeff-macports@…):

 Thanks for the maintainer info.  I'll do that for both ports.

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 Re pkgconfig I had the same thought but didn't bother to look into it.
 I'll go read up on build vs runtime dependencies and get that sorted out.

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 Re git version number, I feel kinda dumb about that.  I've run into that
 before myself on other stuff but it just didn't occur to me this time.
 Thanks for pointing it out.

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 Re similarities to couchdb, many of the changes in this patch are because
 I was diffing couchdb-devel/Portfile with couchdb/Portfile and trying to
 get the diff as short as possible.  I'll make the more stylistic changes a
 separate patch.

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 Re configure patch, I removed it because it didn't seem to be doing
 anything useful given the same check was happening in the portfile.  Now
 that I read into it more I see why it was done.  #30089 helped me
 understand that the portfile is run under root but configure and build are
 run under another.

 It seems pretty clear that the bug appeared because $HOME was not changed
 when dropping from root to the macports user.  It was still trying to
 write into /var/root because that was still the value of $HOME.  Given
 that I still hold that it can be removed, though for different reasons
 than I thought initially, because the actual underlying issue of the home
 directory was fixed in the macports release 2.0.4. (#31827)

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