Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 19:49:05 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/mozilla Makefile pkg-plist Message-ID: <3CE29181.DFB1658A@FreeBSD.org> References: <200205151307.g4FD71651437@green.bikeshed.org>
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"Brian F. Feldman" wrote:
>
> Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Brian Feldman wrote:
> > >
> > > green 2002/05/14 20:57:17 PDT
> > >
> > > Modified files:
> > > www/mozilla Makefile pkg-plist
> > > Log:
> > > Don't treat the ${WITHOUT_CHATZILLA} (default) build as gratuitously
> > > different from the one with ChatZilla. This means building otherwise
> > > the exact same extensions.
> >
> > Thank you for your patch, but *please* next time when you are about to
> > commit something into any port maintained by gnome@FreeBSD.org pass
> > your patches through maintainer. This is expecially important before
> > release, when an occasional mistake could vanish work done by many
> > individuals. In this particular case I suspect that your change broke
> > mozilla-headers, as xmlterm extension adds its own headers into the
> > mix, so that you also need to adjust mozilla-headers/pkg-plist. Please
> > do it ASAP.
>
> I don't believe anything broke, since I was able to successfully package
> both of the ports. In any case, I'm sorry about that; I was under the
> mistaken impression that the mailing-list MAINTAINERs in ports were unlike
> conventional ones.
No, they are just as conventional ones, except of ports@FreeBSD.org.
For example kde@FreeBSD.org is also a mailing list, but they employ
the similar maintaining policy.
> You're right, though; since mozilla-headers should
> include xmlterm since it's now required in both cases, I'll add that.
>
> > Since you was not aware about this policy, I let your change remain in
> > the tree, but please note that next time any unapproved changes will
> > be reverted unconditionally by me or any other member of FreeBSD GNOME
> > team.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> You've gotten me curious -- why is Mozilla a "gnome" port? It's almost
> entirely unrelated...
GNOME uses mozilla for html rendering, so that it is one of its core
components for GNOME. Therefore, anyone breaking mozilla will
automatically break gnome. Since nobody else was willing to maintain
it, GNOME team took over maintainership.
-Maxim
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