Bug 24296

Summary: Mozilla port description is outdated
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: van.woerkom <van.woerkom>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Jeremy Lea <reg>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description van.woerkom 2001-01-13 00:50:01 UTC 
	Port description is outdated

Fix: I suggest this change:



Regards,
Marc--onHSu6G6QKMY0Ha7OdV6M9QT26v61XAomEf6i4DRcc1PxbV9
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Index: pkg-comment
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/www/mozilla/pkg-comment,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 pkg-comment
--- pkg-comment	1999/06/26 19:06:20	1.6
+++ pkg-comment	2001/01/13 00:00:03
@@ -1 +1 @@
-The mozilla ver 0.0 communicator web-surfboard
+The mozilla ver 0.7 communicator web-surfboard
Index: pkg-descr
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/www/mozilla/pkg-descr,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 pkg-descr
--- pkg-descr	1998/04/12 13:42:17	1.18
+++ pkg-descr	2001/01/13 00:29:45
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
-This is the source code that Netscape released and will be used for
-its next generation of browsers.  It is intended for use by developers
-and testers only.
+This is version 0.7 of the Mozilla web browser, released by Mozilla.org
+
+It shares a large part of the code base with the Navigator 6 series
+from Netscape.
+
+Please help testing and improving this important open source
+project.
+
+
+WWW: http://www.mozilla.org
How-To-Repeat: 
        Read pkg-comment, pkg-descr :)
Comment 1 billf 2001-01-13 00:52:51 UTC 
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:40:28AM +0100, van.woerkom@netcologne.de wrote:

> Index: pkg-comment
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/www/mozilla/pkg-comment,v
> retrieving revision 1.6
> diff -u -r1.6 pkg-comment
> --- pkg-comment	1999/06/26 19:06:20	1.6
> +++ pkg-comment	2001/01/13 00:00:03
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -The mozilla ver 0.0 communicator web-surfboard
> +The mozilla ver 0.7 communicator web-surfboard
> Index: pkg-descr
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/www/mozilla/pkg-descr,v
> retrieving revision 1.18
> diff -u -r1.18 pkg-descr
> --- pkg-descr	1998/04/12 13:42:17	1.18
> +++ pkg-descr	2001/01/13 00:29:45
> @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
> -This is the source code that Netscape released and will be used for
> -its next generation of browsers.  It is intended for use by developers
> -and testers only.
> +This is version 0.7 of the Mozilla web browser, released by Mozilla.org
> +
> +It shares a large part of the code base with the Navigator 6 series
> +from Netscape.
> +
> +Please help testing and improving this important open source
> +project.
> +
> +
> +WWW: http://www.mozilla.org

Version specific text in pkg-comment and pkg-descr is probably a bad idea,
as it obsoletes itself every time a new version is released. Better to just
write generic descriptions.

-- 
Bill Fumerola - security yahoo         / Yahoo! inc.
              - fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
Comment 2 Will Andrews 2001-01-13 01:02:19 UTC 
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 01:40:28AM +0100, van.woerkom@netcologne.de wrote:
> -The mozilla ver 0.0 communicator web-surfboard
> +The mozilla ver 0.7 communicator web-surfboard
[...]
> +This is version 0.7 of the Mozilla web browser, released by Mozilla.org

Putting version numbers in pkg-* is a Very Bad Thing (tm).

-- 
wca
Comment 3 van.woerkom 2001-01-13 01:30:05 UTC 
Bill, Will - fast reply :-)

> Version specific text in pkg-comment and pkg-descr is probably a bad idea,
> as it obsoletes itself every time a new version is released. Better to just
> write generic descriptions.

Ok, how about this one?

Index: pkg-comment
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/www/mozilla/pkg-comment,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -u -r1.6 pkg-comment
--- pkg-comment	1999/06/26 19:06:20	1.6
+++ pkg-comment	2001/01/13 01:22:23
@@ -1 +1 @@
-The mozilla ver 0.0 communicator web-surfboard
+The Mozilla web-surfboard
Index: pkg-descr
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/www/mozilla/pkg-descr,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -r1.18 pkg-descr
--- pkg-descr	1998/04/12 13:42:17	1.18
+++ pkg-descr	2001/01/13 01:25:15
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
-This is the source code that Netscape released and will be used for
-its next generation of browsers.  It is intended for use by developers
-and testers only.
+This is the Mozilla web-surfboard, an early release by Mozilla.org
+
+It shares a large part of the code base together with the Navigator 6 
+series from Netscape.
+
+Please help testing and improving this important open source
+project.
+
+
+WWW: http://www.mozilla.org

I think it is important to stress that this is 
a) a release from Mozilla.org
b) something strange between beta and regular
   release, but worth trying

Regards,
Marc
Comment 4 billf 2001-01-13 01:34:43 UTC 
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 02:30:05AM +0100, Marc van Woerkom wrote:
> Bill, Will - fast reply :-)
> 
> > Version specific text in pkg-comment and pkg-descr is probably a bad idea,
> > as it obsoletes itself every time a new version is released. Better to just
> > write generic descriptions.
> 
> Ok, how about this one?

Looks good to me.

-- 
Bill Fumerola - security yahoo         / Yahoo! inc.
              - fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org
Comment 5 Peter Pentchev freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-01-17 13:07:22 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports->reg

Over to maintainer; the second suggestion looks good to me, too, FWIW.
Comment 6 Jeremy Lea freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-01-19 06:25:38 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Thanks for the update.  I'll commit this with the next round of fixes, 
although I think I'll have a go at rewording this also.