Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:27:08 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org> To: John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to "downgrade" a port in the tree Message-ID: <20041013162708.GO22274@toxic.magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <200410131021.30311.john@jnielsen.net> References: <200410131021.30311.john@jnielsen.net>
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>> (10.13.2004 @ 1221 PST): John Nielsen said, in 1.3K: << > Hi folks- > > I have a policy/procedure question- > > I'm not much of a programmer, but I am the port maintainer for the > mail/hotwayd port. The version in the tree is the latest available > version, hotwayd 0.8. However, there are some serious bugs in this version > that result in mangled e-mail headers. > > The author does not appear to be actively maintaining the port, since there > have been no changes to the webpage (http://hotwayd.sourceforge.net) since > February. I am not aware of anyone else working on these bugs at present. > > The previous version of the software, hotwayd 0.74, works well (albeit with > a smaller advertised feature set). I never submitted a port for 0.74, only > 0.71. I think the best thing would be to have 0.74 in the ports tree. I'm > happy to submit a port-maintainer patch, but I wanted to see if there were > any special considerations for going down a version. What is the best > place to notify end-users of the situation? (UPDATING?) Is there a way to > convince portupgrade that the .74 version is better than the .80 version > for existing installations? > > Thanks for any input. Please CC me as I'm not on the list. >> end of "how to "downgrade" a port in the tree" from John Nielsen << Downgrading a port is perfectly acceptable in this situation. If you cannot patch the 0.80 sources to unmangle the email addresses, submit a PR downgrading it back to 0.74. All you need to do there is add PORTEPOCH= 1 and it will appear as a newer version to portupgrade(1). I don't personally think that it's even necessary to append UPDATING for this. Noting this situation in the commit message should be sufficient. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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