Re: Proposal for new UPDATING format

2010-08-21 Thread Andres Perera
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:43 PM, David DEMELIER wrote: > > Not a bad idea, the problem is that the file UPDATING does not speak > always for a package, sometime it's just some information that are not > specific to a package. > Well, that could be addressed by having a stricter way of populating

Re: Proposal for new UPDATING format

2010-08-20 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/8/19 Andres Perera : > The idea is to add a VERSION field so that automated tools can display > the entries prior performing the actual upgrade. > > Filtering by date isn't exact enough, so the new field will correspond > with the first version of the port were the "problem" occurs. > > Withou

Proposal for new UPDATING format

2010-08-19 Thread Andres Perera
The idea is to add a VERSION field so that automated tools can display the entries prior performing the actual upgrade. Filtering by date isn't exact enough, so the new field will correspond with the first version of the port were the "problem" occurs. Without getting into implementation details,