port won't upgrade

[Clemens Lang]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:01:53PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> You've run into a peculiar feature of MacPorts. You have 3.10.2_1
> installed, MacPorts knows there's a newer version 3.10.2_2 available
> so it shows it to you in "port outdated", but MacPorts thinks there's
> nothing to upgrade because you've already installed 3.10.2_2, even
> though it's disabled and using a different variant.

I have previously seen this behavior and have always wondered whether
this is a bug or a feature. Can you enlighten me whether this is
expected behavior or just a gray area where we have decided the current
behavior is "good enough"?

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Clemens Lang