Re: git: bb8dbe1580ae - main - sysutils/lnav: Fix distinfo

On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 12:44:52PM +0900, Yasuhiro Kimura wrote:
> ...
> PORTVERSION is the version used for the FreeBSD package. It will be
> automatically derived from DISTVERSION to be compatible with
> FreeBSD's package versioning scheme.

To elaborate: right, so you set DISTVERSION when it's incompatible
with FreeBSD's package versioning scheme.  Most of the time it is
compatible, so PORTVERSION should be used instead.  I don't know
why this passage had been added to the PHB, I've asked a few times
but never got any meaningful answer.  It looks totally backwards
to me, and it causes lots of needless churn on the ports repo. :(

./danfe