Re: git: 11e51925413b - main - devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL: Update to 0.08

From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2023 02:58:00 UTC 
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 02:11:21AM +0800, Po-Chuan Hsieh wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 3:59???AM Joseph Mingrone wrote:
> > On Fri, 2023-08-18 at 16:08, Renato Botelho wrote:
> > ...
> > > Anyway, can you please fix the port by adding PORTEPOCH?
> >
> > Fixed in 49eb4309189da197f55dee54f8efb5e875f2daaa.
> 
> No doubt 0.08 is less than 0.0701 in the pkg world.
> Thank you all for fixing it.
> 
> We don't know if the versioning change is temporary or not. Instead of
> adding PORTEPOCH, please consider the following fix/hack next time.
> 
> --- a/devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/Makefile
> +++ b/devel/p5-DateTime-Format-MySQL/Makefile
> @@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
>  PORTNAME=      DateTime-Format-MySQL
> -PORTVERSION=   0.08
> +PORTVERSION=   0.0800

I concur.  PORTEPOCH stays forever so long as PKGNAME remains the same,
and version numbers come and go.  Even skipping one particularly bad
version is better than bumping the epoch; we should try harder to avoid
doing it when better mitigation methods exist.

./danfe