From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 15 19:23:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from omega.lovett.com (omega.lovett.com [209.249.90.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A5FF37B416; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 19:23:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [24.243.55.247] (helo=[10.0.0.2] ident=ident) by omega.lovett.com with asmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16bvRc-000Cco-00; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 19:23:24 -0800 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1331 Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:24:26 -0600 Subject: Re: iconv port: plea for take-over From: Ade Lovett To: "Andrey A. Chernov" , Konstantin Chuguev Cc: , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020215232829.GA49008@nagual.pp.ru> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02/15/02 17:28, "Andrey A. Chernov" wrote: > Unless somebody will take its maintainership, we need to switch to GNU > iconv and mark iconv as BROKEN. Currently iconv have several problems > which affects ports badly (like dead loops). GNU iconv libs/headers at > this moment installed with non-default "g" prefix so require more > ports patching efforts to use it. Whilst I am certain that having GNU iconv as the "One True Ports Iconv" on which other stuff depends (and also removing the bazillions of hacks because we install it a *giconv, I count 25 ports that currently depend on the iconv port. If (a) this is sufficient collatoral damage and (b) at least some of them also work with GNU iconv, then I have no problem in initiating the de-orbit burn sequence for the other iconv (and mark as BROKEN="old iconv" the other ports). I would definitely want to see a concerted yes from both ports committers and i18n (to the extent that a Reviewed by: ports, i18n would be acceptable) before flipping the switch. There would also be temporary breakage elsewhere in the tree as the giconv->iconv transition is made. It might be possible for one person to do that as a single mega-commit, though. -aDe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message