Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 13:03:15 +0100 From: John Marino <freebsd.contact@marino.st> To: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Cc: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> Subject: Re: Updating CUPS Message-ID: <52BC1B03.5040606@marino.st> In-Reply-To: <20131226065451.745a0c55@scorpio> References: <20131224154419.1b87ef83@scorpio> <fe29d3d0-4035-4a66-860e-35a6f795ce32@email.android.com> <20131226065451.745a0c55@scorpio>
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On 12/26/2013 12:54, Jerry wrote: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 09:14:55 +0100, Matthias Andree stated: > >> Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> schrieb: >>> The ports latest version of CUPS is 1.5.4; however version 1.7.0 has >>> been out since 10/24/13. Is there any possibility that the latest >>> version will make it into the ports system soon? >>> >> Careful with what you are asking for, have you checked the upstream >> change logs? 1.6 already broke some aspects of compatibility >> massively w.r.t. distributed printing or differing CUPS versions in >> your LAN. > > Well, almost any updated software has the potential to break something, > CUPS being no exception. However, those cases are not the norm and the > fact that in a few edge cases problems have been discovered is not a > sound reason for unilaterally failing to include the new version in the > posts system. There have been numerous cases where a new version of a > port was introduced into the system. In many of those cases workarounds > were introduced to allow the user to continue with the older version or > update to the newer one. I fail to see why that would not be acceptable > in this instance. In any case, how do you propose to find problems with > a new product if it is not tested in a real environment? In a worse > case scenario, a new port, perhaps "cups-devel" could be created. Maybe rather than asking "where is it?" you should instead submit a PR with poudriere-tested patches that brings cups up to the new version? Until last week when bsam changed the MAINTAINER field in cups*, all the cups ports didn't even have a maintainer, so I don't know who you expect to do this work. PRs with patches have a greater chance of success that pinging the mail list and telling nobody-in-particular to spend their volunteer time on something specific... John
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