Re: Regarding MESSAGEs during pkg_add installation of meta packages

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

Am 22.03.2025 um 13:45 schrieb Thomas Klausner:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2025 at 08:28:49AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> I'd be happy with just deciding that MESSAGE (now) is something thath
>> should not exist, and then entirely removing support for it, and
>> bulk-rming all MESSAGE files, after giving people who think they might
>> have README.pkgsrc content a chance to move to that.
>
> I can get behind that, but for me the first step would be to make
> pkglint print an error about them - right now it's not even a warning
> when a package has a MESSAGE.* file.
>
> rillig@, can you please add that when you have time?

I implemented it by marking MESSAGE files as obsolete. I will release
pkglint after the end of the freeze, as I suppose that pkglint is mainly
used from the trunk branch and thus a pullup would not be useful.

Roland