[MacPorts] #63979: qca and subports: revisions have not been restored correctly

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#63979: qca and subports: revisions have not been restored correctly
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  Reporter:  ryandesign  |      Owner:  RJVB
      Type:  defect      |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports       |    Version:
Resolution:              |   Keywords:
      Port:  qca         |
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Comment (by ryandesign):

 Replying to [comment:7 RJVB]:
 > What archive names, the tar bundles in var/macports/software?

 Yes.

 > All I know is that `port upgrade qca` worked without a glitch on my end.
 From that I would deduce that the upgrade mechanism sees the increased
 epoch, and clearly decided to overwrite the old archives without requiring
 me to use `--force`.

 That's nice. But if a user still had e.g. the old qca @2.2.1_0 from 2019
 installed, MacPorts would not have upgraded them to your new qca @2.2.1_0.
 If we still had the archives from that time on the server, the old
 archives would have been downloaded. There may be other failure modes
 associated with this problem.

 > But if someone wants to restore the revision numbers from before the
 reverted upgrade to 2.3.4 (or even increase them), I have nothing against
 that.

 You are the maintainer of the port and are responsible for maintaining it
 correctly. You are the one who knows whether you've changed anything in
 the port that warrants a revision increase as compared to the port's
 previous iteration. You should set the revisions as needed, per my
 original report.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/63979#comment:9>
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