Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/subversion16-base

[Carl Brewer <carl%bl.echidna.id.au@localhost>]

On 10/02/2013 1:02 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
> I have no objection to you adding svn 1.6, but I'm curious why.  I know
> this request is beyond our documented norms, but it would be nice to
> expand the comment in DESCR to note that 1.6 is not the
> upstream-recommended version, explain why 1.6 is useful/necessary (is
> there something wrong with 1.7?  is this just for people in managed
> environments who haven't decided to upgrade?),
>
> Where I'm coming from is that I see pkgsrc as doing two things for
> users: one is wrangling builds so that 'make package-install' is all it
> takes, and the other is making choices about what version is in the best
> interests of the broad user base.
>
> In the subversion case, it took a while to figure out what the
> recommendations are, but I found:
>
>    https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/
>
> which says basically that 1.7 is current and 1.6 is security fix only.

In the case of 1.6 -> 1.7 there's no repository changes needed, the 
upgrade on a server is essentially painless.


> (I'm posting this in public only because I think pkgsrc in general would
> benefit from having this kind of guidance in DESCR, whenever there are
> multiple pacakged versions.)