Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 10:20:38 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de> Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/kdemultimedia Makefile ports/audio/kdemultimedia/patches patch-a0 patch-ab patch-ac patch-ag patch-ah Message-ID: <19980710102038.A11716@klemm.gtn.com> In-Reply-To: <199807100030.BAA19304@awfulhak.org>; from Brian Somers on Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 01:30:23AM %2B0100 References: <87r9zvpnoj.fsf@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> <199807100030.BAA19304@awfulhak.org>
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On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 01:30:23AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > Hmm, I don't wish to criticise the maintainer (I have no idea about > his other commitments), but this port along with other kde 4.1-beta > ports has been broken for some time. > > I sent a complete set of patches to bring the whole lot up to 4.1 at > one point and got absolutely no reply. > > While I have no doubt that the stuff Stefan is doing is far more > thorough than what I did, I have to agree with ``scrappy'' - it's > broken, so fix it. Besides, shipping 2.2.7 w/ broken ports will look > a bit silly :-/ To make things more clear, my $0.02, since I was a bit involved, but couldn't help. Thomas released a set of patches to Stefan and me. Stefan is a bit overstressed at the moment. I had no time to test as well. So Thomas and you did work for the port at the same time, but you won the "game" by being the first who actually did the commit ;-) I'd suggest, that you should write at least to -ports as well, that you couldn't reach the MAINTAINER and will do the bloody work on this port. This gives everybody a chance to see, that something may happen. Or another possibility, maybe much much cleaner and safer (since ports has much traffic) .... Mark a broken port, that you want to fix as Broken and put into the BROKEN string: BROKEN= "couldn't reach maintainer, will fix it, scrappy" Could we all agree on this and document this in docs ?! Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP''
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