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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2019 21:59:39 -0600
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
Cc:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>, Cy Schubert <cy@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r510920 - in head/sysutils: . syslog-ng syslog-ng323
Message-ID:  <5D82F790-497B-46DB-8819-54BE2FC0C9E9@adamw.org>
In-Reply-To: <201909031129.x83BTn2d073337@slippy.cwsent.com>
References:  <201909030331.x833VvoQ079054@repo.freebsd.org> <20190903082020.73tdsn7gio7svyfm@ivaldir.net> <201909031118.x83BIUTl031197@slippy.cwsent.com> <201909031129.x83BTn2d073337@slippy.cwsent.com>

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> On Sep 3, 2019, at 05:29, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> wrote:
>=20
> In message <201909031118.x83BIUTl031197@slippy.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert=20=

> writes:
>> In message <20190903082020.73tdsn7gio7svyfm@ivaldir.net>, Baptiste=20
>> Daroussin wr
>> ites:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 03:31:57AM +0000, Cy Schubert wrote:
>>>> Author: cy
>>>> Date: Tue Sep  3 03:31:56 2019
>>>> New Revision: 510920
>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/510920
>>>> =3D20
>>>> Log:
>>>> Thank you to Peter Czanik, of Balabit the producers of syslog-ng, for
>>>> a port of the new syslog-ng 3.23 branch. This is 3.23.1.
>>>> =3D20
>>>> Submitted by:    Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik@oneidentity.com>
>>>>         Balabit (a OneIdentity company) / syslog-ng upstream
>>>=20
>>> Do we really need all possible revision of syslog-ng in ports?
>>>=20
>>> Do they have that many incompatibilities between each others that is it
>>> mandatory to have all the supported one? isn't it possible to only live w=
it
>> =3D
>>> h the
>>> lastest stable version? it seems most linux distribution are doing that a=
nd
>>> happy with it, so does pkgsrc and openbsd ports.
>>>=20
>>> I think it is more confusing users than it does help them to have 15 dif=
fer
>> =3D
>>> ent
>>> version of syslog-ng in ports.
>>=20
>> No we don't. I periodically cull older ones following consultation with o=
ur=20
>> upstream. It's probably time to do that again.
>=20
> I've pinged our upstream for his input. We'll have a plan by the end of th=
e=20
> week.

Has this been resolved? I saw that you purged unsupported versions, but is t=
here a need for every supported version to be in ports?

# Adam


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Adam Weinberger
adamw@adamw.org
https://www.adamw.org




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