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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:22:17 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/audio/csound Makefile
Message-ID:  <20010312022217.A56933@mollari.cthul.hu>
In-Reply-To: <3AACA1CC.22D17597@FreeBSD.org>; from sobomax@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:15:40PM %2B0200
References:  <20010312041721.P2937-100000@blues.jpj.net> <3AACA1CC.22D17597@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 12:15:40PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Trevor Johnson wrote:
>=20
> > >   This port does not currently compile.
> > >
> > >   Noticed by:     bento
> >
> > Hi, Kris. I'm the maintainer for this port.  In the future, if you noti=
ce
> > something like this in one of my ports, please do not simply mark the p=
ort
> > BROKEN, but instead try to contact me, as is customary (see the "Develo=
per
> > Relations" section in the Committer's Guide).  In this case, if you sti=
ll
> > have the error log, please send it (or a URL for it) to me.  I could not
> > find it in http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/4-full/ nor in
> > http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/5-full/ .  If the log no longer exis=
ts,
> > kindly back out this commit, because I'm not aware of any problems with
> > the port (except being marked BROKEN ;) ).
> >
> > If you plan to do this to other ports, keep in mind that recent changes
> > may not be reflected in the bento builds.  For example, I updated the
> > csound port on Thursday.
>=20
> I wholeheartedly support this sentence as I (and I'm sure most of the act=
ive
> maintainers) don't like to see somebody gratuitously marking ports "BORKE=
N" (or
> doing any other unapproved actions) just because he saw some errors on be=
nto,
> especially without any attempt to contact the maintainer in question. Mor=
eover,
> the problem may be only with specific branch, or with local setup, while =
BROKEN
> mark will prevent port from building on all branches.
>=20
> Yet again: Kris, please respect maintainers!

Bah..I tested the build, verified that it failed, and committed the
change to note as such.  If more maintainers actually checked bento
regularly, we wouldn't have so many broken ports in the tree.

Kris

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