From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Feb 21 05:39:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA03692 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 05:39:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from american.com (biscayne.american.com [204.253.96.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA03687 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 05:39:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotsprings.american.com (hotsprings.american.com [204.253.96.21]) by american.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id IAA13565 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 08:39:03 -0500 Received: from localhost (pgf@localhost) by hotsprings.american.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA23469 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 1996 08:39:18 -0500 Message-Id: <199602211339.IAA23469@hotsprings.american.com> X-Authentication-Warning: hotsprings.american.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zlib 0.95 disappeared from master site In-reply-to: asami's message of Sun, 18 Feb 1996 20:52:33 -0800. <199602190452.UAA07782@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-to: pgf@american.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <23467.824909958.1@hotsprings> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 08:39:18 -0500 From: Paul Fox Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > They now have a zlib-0.99.tar.gz that claims it's zlib-1.0.... > satoshi -- what's the correct protocol for this? i put a patch for a similar upgrade to vile/xvile in incoming on freefall some time ago (and sent mail to the list), but nothing has happened with it. i've been keeping the old version of vile (5.2) available at the master site, until i'm sure the ports tree is updated. of course, the ports tree would get updated more quickly if i simply removed the old version, because then it would break, and someone would fix it. :-) what should i be doing differently? i spoke to justin (i think) at usenix about it, and he suggested that i just get an account on freefall. while i'm happy to do that, it seems like overkill, since this kind of release number upgrade would be my only involvement... paul --------------------- paul fox american internet corporation pgf@american.com (home: pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us) "Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly". - Henry Spencer