[gentoo-dev] Re: Review: Apache AddHandler news item

[Duncan]

Sebastian Pipping posted on Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:15:09 +0100 as excerpted:

> Changes:
>
>  * Revision bump

This ^^..
 
>  * Add section on .php.inc
>
>  * Add thanks line
>
>
> ================================================================
> Title: Apache AddHandler vulnerability protection
> Author: Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>
> Content-Type: text/plain
> Posted: 2015-03-26
> Revision: 2

And this ^^..

> News-Item-Format: 1.0
> Display-If-Installed: www-servers/apache


This is a common error.  While not entirely intuitive, AFAIK revision is 
a post-publication value and should remain revision 1 unless a correction 
is needed once published.


Perhaps it is time to formally change that.  Reading software must be 
prepared to deal with first-seen values greater than 1 in any case, since 
a user might not have seen the original revision, and history has 
repeatedly demonstrated that people want to bump the revision number 
during initial discussion.  So why not simply let it be bumped, and let 
the first published version be what it may?  If necessary, further bumps 
can happen from there.

Tho in practice, very likely as a result of the pre-publishing approval 
process including discussion here, AFAIK no such post-publishing 
correcting revision has ever been necessary.  But that's not to say it 
won't /ever/ be necessary, so having the ability is certainly a good 
thing. =:^)


Either that or start out with a pre-publishing version of 0.1 and bump 
that, changing it to 1 on initial publish.

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