Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:27:52 +0200
From:      Kirill Ponomarew <krion@voodoo.oberon.net>
To:        Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc:        Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: GSL update has broken dependent ports (was: porttools -- generate pkg-plist)
Message-ID:  <20040706222752.GI59374@voodoo.oberon.net>
In-Reply-To: <m3fz84bxct.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
References:  <8cb27cbf0407051239601b72a4@mail.gmail.com> <m3fz84bxct.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--sU4rRG038CsJurvk
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:10:42AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> >  The new GSL-1.5 tarball is available and I wanted to port it using the
> > port-authoring-tools-1.0. Is there any information on how I can use it
> > or the associated software, porttools, to generate a pkg-plist? I
> > looked for  a man page on port-authoring-tools and porttools and found
> > none. Google also did not turn up any docs.
>=20
> OK, so I see this was committed without advance warning (i. e. HEADS-UP
> mail here) and without fixing dependent ports - breaking bogofilter
> because it cannot satisfy its dependencies any longer.
>=20
> Please remember to notify the maintainers of dependent ports ahead of
> time so they can tell whether the updated library will have to live on
> in a separate port or whether dependency lines in their own ports must
> be updated. The GSL update falls into the latter category.

Usually you don't need to notify another maintainers about
library chase, it's committer's responsibility.

-Kirill

--sU4rRG038CsJurvk
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFA6ydoQC1G6a60JuURApDSAKCKFN36hnl4YuWVs6yNGzZ/is441gCgrpyw
04t5d0GiaQTlZBs9+6NTfiE=
=2hQP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--sU4rRG038CsJurvk--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040706222752.GI59374>