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Subject: Re: Acroread: contacting maintainer
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On 01/16/12 14:13, Hiroki Sato wrote:
> Da Rock<freebsd-ports@herveybayaustralia.com.au>  wrote
>    in<4F139C43.1050609@herveybayaustralia.com.au>:
>
> fr>  What is the correct way to contact the maintainer for a port? Does one
> fr>  contact directly? Or through a list (this one?)? Or pr?
> fr>
> fr>  I'm trying to contact the maintainer of the acroread ports to see if
> fr>  they can put in a dependency on linux-f10-cups-libs for the ease of
> fr>  use by general users, and to enable acceptance by the graphics
> fr>  industry niche.
> fr>
> fr>  I tried a direct email, but I've received no response as yet after
> fr>  several days; and I'm not 100% sure I did the right thing.
>
>   I got your email on last Saturday and it's Monday afternoon.  I need
>   to test it in multiple environments before committing the change at
>   least, so please give me time to investigate.
Sorry, I wasn't sure I was doing things right, and I didn't know what 
was going to happen next, so I just thought I'd better ask what the 
procedure was.

Waiting for the change is fine. Do you need help testing?