Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 13:26:17 +0200 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: George Kouryachy <frbrgeorge@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports version upping policy? Message-ID: <1113305177.764.23.camel@innercity> In-Reply-To: <f6879d2c05041204121b11d319@mail.gmail.com> References: <f6879d2c05041204121b11d319@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-KAJ+/7Zy82RYZbFqs8qW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Le Mardi 12 avril 2005 =E0 15:12 +0400, George Kouryachy a =E9crit : > Hi. >=20 > I've noticed some ports I'm using are too outdated against the upstream > E. g. python Toy Parseg Generatior (tpg) port is still 3.0.0, although > there is 3.0.5 with many bugfixes. >=20 > Another example is tardy (tarball on-the-fly editor). It just ups from > 1.11 to 1.12, but the new version has many changes and meanwhile the > author switched it's website. >=20 > The Q are: > 1. I have stable new-versioned ports edited by myself. Can I push it > to main ports tree instead of rewriting my own one after every cvs > update? You need to have write-access to the ports tree, so for now, that's not (yet) possible. > 2. I wrote a letter to every port maintainer picking their emails > directly from pkg-info, but got no answer. Was there a wrong style of > request? Maybe it's better to write to some maillists or use PR? There > are no patches needed to compile the new ports and there a no "stable" > and "unstable" versions of tardy and tpg, so there seems to be lack of > maintainer's care not the lack of maintainers time... People can be busy with life and not thinking about their ports=20 all the time. Use send-pr to send your patches. Follow the=20 instructions written in the Porter's Handbook. > 3. tardy maintainer is "ports@freebsd.org". Does it mean the port is > unmaintained? Yes, I've asked Dan Langille to add a special notice for these=20 ports so that people know they are unmaintained. Maybe we should think about it again. Dan ? --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@xbsd.org --=-KAJ+/7Zy82RYZbFqs8qW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCW7BZMxEkbVFH3PQRAi0SAJ9c8Gu6Ubzw+Mcv5jZZ/9a5prqnpgCeKjLr l+88VD65P7f9fdjm8TD2JV8= =HzlZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-KAJ+/7Zy82RYZbFqs8qW--
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