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

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 10 Feb 2013, Ryo ONODERA wrote:
> subversion 1.7.x has only one .svn directory and the contents of
> .svn directory have changed.
> This is the reason why I have added subversion16.

If you have third party scripts that attempt to parse the contents 
of .svn directories, or even just check for the existence of a 
.svn subdirectory as a quick (though unsupported) way to answer 
the question "is this directory part of a subversion working 
copy?" then the change from subversion-1.6 to subversion-1.7 is 
problematic.  So I agree that a subversion-1.6 package is a good 
idea.

> I should write this in commit log.

And in the DESCR files, please.

Whenever pkgsrc has multiple variants of a package, I think that 
the DESCR file should contain information to help users choose 
the most appropriate variant.  The question "How would I choose 
between the subversion packages with or without -base in their 
name?" seems to be cleary answered by the DESCR files, but the 
question "How would I choose between the subversion, subversion16, 
or subversion17 packages?" is not clearly answered.

--apb (Alan Barrett)