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Date:      Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:08:09 +0100
From:      Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-ports-head@freebsd.org, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r307782 - head/audio/asunder
Message-ID:  <50B3A1F9.5060904@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxg=qHkUEPt9f7KG=jdiS0rgR80byM83GDjnYExa74u=dzA@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <201211261259.qAQCxdXD089022@svn.freebsd.org> <20121126135609.GC62928@FreeBSD.org> <50B39163.2040309@FreeBSD.org> <20121126161113.GA72036@FreeBSD.org> <CAF6rxg=qHkUEPt9f7KG=jdiS0rgR80byM83GDjnYExa74u=dzA@mail.gmail.com>

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On 11/26/12 17:57, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 26 November 2012 11:11, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 04:57:23PM +0100, Guido Falsi wrote:
>>> On 11/26/12 14:56, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>>> We have standard knob for this one (APE_DESC).
>>>>
>>>>>   PORTDOCS= AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL NEWS README TODO
>>>>
>>>> Normally we do not install COPYING as part of the docs, LICENSE should be
>>>> set instead.  If software expects to find this file (e.g. for displaying in
>>>> the about dialog), it should be redirected to share/licenses/${PKGNAME}
>>>> instead (see `graphics/luminance' port for an example).
>>>
>>> Thanks for these, I'll fix them and commit after maintainer approval.
>>
>> Technically speaking, you don't have to have maintainer's approval for these
>> things, as they don't affect functionality, just make the port more adhering
>> to our standards (and common sense).
>
> It is good to ping the maintainer though unless there is specific reason not to.
> - Since they signed up to maintain the port its nice not to change
> things without asking
> - It teaches the maintainers about our standards :)

I agree.

I'd rather ping them if the problem is not really urgent(i.e. broken 
index, broken dependencies etc.) or really really trivial (i.e. typo, 
fixing a comment/header).

Anyway if I don't get an answer in a decent time I'll go ahead and fix 
this anyway.

-- 
Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>



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