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Date:      Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:41:34 +0200
From:      John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@FreeBSD.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r326241 - head/math/octave-forge-odepkg
Message-ID:  <52272A7E.2060409@marino.st>
In-Reply-To: <5227293D.30108@missouri.edu>
References:  <201309040138.r841cHYC074414@svn.freebsd.org> <20130904033030.GC71557@FreeBSD.org> <5227293D.30108@missouri.edu>

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On 9/4/2013 14:36, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> 
> However, from a philosophical point of view, if a project external to
> FreeBSD makes source code that is not safe for the -j option to be used,
> should FreeBSD ports committers feel that it is our job to correct their
> source code?
> 
> I think the answer should be "no," and it seems you disagree.  I would
> like to hear what other people think.
> 

Often issues like this are due to upstream not really understanding how
g/make works and when somebody points out issues and suggests a fix, the
fix is often taken with gratitude.

In general I agree with you, but if the fix is trivial, why not to try
to push it back upstream?

John



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