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Date:      Wed, 15 Jan 2014 19:24:42 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: abills-0.54
Message-ID:  <447ga06aet.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
In-Reply-To: <52D70A62.8030608@rivne.uar.net> (Maxim Sirenko's message of "Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:23:30 %2B0200")
References:  <52D6F34A.9020900@rivne.uar.net> <CAGK=9AGuUT0GJB5zDfOX09kRVnSyDOpNgyK1C44h=yjAG%2BC3=A@mail.gmail.com> <52D70A62.8030608@rivne.uar.net>

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Maxim Sirenko <maxim@rivne.uar.net> writes:

> I can't do that -- not enough knowledge & experience.

This one's pretty easy; nothing seems to need to be changed except for
the version number. Go into the Makefile, change "0.54" to "0.55" and
then do "make makesum" before doing "make install".

I can't be positive it works, because I didn't test it heavily, but it
definitely builds.

> I thought the author maintains the port.

Well, no; most ports are programs that run on many different operating
systems. In some cases, the author hasn't even *heard* of FreeBSD.
Ports may have a maintainer, who takes care of keeping it up to date and
building, but abills doesn't have one. On the other hand, it doesn't
seem to need a lot of maintenance.

I would put in a PR to update it, but if it's going to be modified, it
ought to be changed to handle the new "staging" infrastructure, and I
don't have time to learn how to do that at the moment.



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