On Jan 10, 2018, at 06:33, Jan Stary wrote: > what is the strategy with the libressl port as opposed to libressl-devel? > Currently, libressl is 2.5.5 and libressl-devel is 2.6.2. > > I don't think upstream even considers "devel" releases in any sense, > a release is a release. Is there anything else from the port's view > that makes one of them "stable" and the other one "devel", > or is it just a name for previous and latest?
A -devel port is a place where a port maintainer can try things out before making them available to the larger audience that uses the stable port. Those things might include a newer version of the software, different configure or build flags, a different build system, or anything else. I'm not sure what Jeremy's specific strategy is with the libressl-devel port, but at the moment it seems to be just a newer version with no other changes. The request to update the libressl port to a newer version is here: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/55264
