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On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 9:18rC>PM Yusuf Yaman <nxjoseph@protonmail.com> wrote:

Do you think this is OK and/or worth it?

Absolutely not, IMHO. I'd rather try to figure out how to make
Repology recognize the fact that we actually have an up to date
version.
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Hi,
Thanks for your opinion and i think you're right, i'm glad i ask here first before opening a PR.
I might send a mail to them, and if possible, they can try something like ignoring the date after version.
Thanks, again.
Kind regards,
Yusuf Yaman.
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On Monday, September 15th, 2025 at 9:28 PM, Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 9:18rC>PM Yusuf Yaman nxjoseph@protonmail.com wrote:

Do you think this is OK and/or worth it?

Absolutely not, IMHO. I'd rather try to figure out how to make
Repology recognize the fact that we actually have an up to date
version.

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Hi,
Yes, the upstream did not made up a release in recent years, but keeps taking up new commits to the code, and if you want to get these commits with the recent old release, you should define a github tagname to the newest commit of the repository, and i guess it's advised to add snapshot date to version in this case.
I didn't contact with upstream.
Thanks.
Kind regards,
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On Monday, September 15th, 2025 at 9:45 PM, Patrick M. Hausen <hausen@punkt.de> wrote:

Hi,

Am 15.09.2025 um 20:17 schrieb Yusuf Yaman nxjoseph@protonmail.com:
I am using repology.org for a while because it is useful, but, in my maintainer information page, this port is seen as problematic because it has the "release date" on ${DISTVERSION} too.

Just curious because I do a bit of porting myself every now and then.

Is that necessary because upstream has not tagged a new release since 2015 and
is this the only way to pick up the later changes? Or the commonly recommended
one for the ports system?

And then of course I wonder why there is no new release. The much more prominent
NUT (Network UPS Tools) suffered from the same - no release, so no updated port/package.

Did you contact upstream?

Kind regards, thanks in advance if you take the time,
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Hello,

You can also use git describe to get a version with commit count style
instead of <version>-<date>:

~/tmp/vimpager % git describe --tags
2.06-385-g8a4cc18

portversion will be translated to vimpager-2.06.385
as documented in:
[Example 18. Using USE_GITHUB to Access a Commit Between Two Versions] https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/book/#makefile-master_si= tes-github

But in this case a PORTEPOCH will be needed since:

% pkg version -t vimpager-2.06.20250412_1 vimpager-2.06.385


Cheers,



Yusuf Yaman <nxjoseph@protonmail.com> escreveu (segunda, 15/09/2025 =C3=A0(=
s)
19:18):

Hi,

I am the maintainer of sysutils/vimpager, which is a text pager using vim=

.

I am using repology.org for a while because it is useful, but, in my maintainer information page, this port is seen as problematic because it
has the "release date" on ${DISTVERSION} too. So, I am considering adding PORTEPOCH and removing the date to be able to "look clean" on repology.or=

g.

Do you think this is OK and/or worth it? Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,
Yusuf Yaman

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