CVS commit: pkgsrc/x11/py-sip6

["Greg Troxel" <gdt%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   gdt
Date:           Tue Jul 22 18:32:44 UTC 2025

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/x11/py-sip6: Makefile

Log Message:
x11/py-sip6: Restore comments removed without MAINTAINER approval

This package had notes about how unreliable sip releases are, and
those were removed without permission from the MAINTAINER.  Restore
and extend them.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.28 -r1.29 pkgsrc/x11/py-sip6/Makefile

Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.

Modified files:

Index: pkgsrc/x11/py-sip6/Makefile
diff -u pkgsrc/x11/py-sip6/Makefile:1.28 pkgsrc/x11/py-sip6/Makefile:1.29
--- pkgsrc/x11/py-sip6/Makefile:1.28    Tue Jul 22 04:51:38 2025
+++ pkgsrc/x11/py-sip6/Makefile Tue Jul 22 18:32:44 2025
@@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.28 2025/07/22 04:51:38 adam Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.29 2025/07/22 18:32:44 gdt Exp $
 
 # Before updating sip, geography/qgis (as the most demanding sip user
-# currently known) must be tested to build and run ok.  The 6.8.0
-# release of sip was very broken, and .0 releases of sip should be
-# viewed with extreme caution and probably skipped.
+# currently known) must be tested to build and run (with an actual
+# project, loading data).  This is due to a repeated history of
+# problematic sip releases.
+#
+# The 6.8.0 release of sip was very broken.
+# In 2025-06, 6.11.1 caused the build of qgis 3.34 to fail.
+# In 2025-06, 6.12.0 caused the build of qgis 3.34 and 3.40 to fail.
+# (qgis 3.40.8 contained an accommodation for sip's behavior change.)
+#
+# sip's .0 releases should be viewed with extreme caution and if not
+# skipped, deferred until they have been out for 90 days, intended to
+# be long enough that any pain will have been taken and reported by
+# other packaging systems -- the MAINTAINER's decision is that lack of
+# trouble is more important than fast updates.
+
 DISTNAME=      sip-6.12.0
 PKGNAME=       ${PYPKGPREFIX}-${DISTNAME:S/sip/sip6/}
 CATEGORIES=    x11 python