On Oct 23, 2007, at 01:25, Anders F Björklund wrote:

Ryan Schmidt wrote:

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On Oct 22, 2007, at 02:12, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:

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So lets make this format our "official advice", but I would refrain from *demanding* it just yet.

Sure, there are no demands, just recommendations. :) nox has already updated "port lint" to complain about portfiles that don't match the recommendation. So as people run "port lint" on their portfiles, hopefully they will be encouraged to fix the names of their patchfiles.

I was just wondering why it should make so many existing ports invalid, but as long as someone is up to renaming all the files and Portfiles...

It doesn't make them invalid. They still work fine. "port lint" exists to tell you about things that are wrong with your portfiles (errors) and things which could be improved about your portfiles (warnings). The patchname check is a warning, not an error.