Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:16:17 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: bf1783@gmail.com Cc: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>, cvs-all@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, Philippe Audeoud <jadawin@freebsd.org>, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security/p5-IO-Socket-SSL Makefile distinfo Message-ID: <4EE27AA1.9080505@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAGFTUwOdXKnC5aYyrd%2B54aTb8WH3U5kDdteDW2xoCWKf99-f=Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <201112090933.pB99XU1p057960@repoman.freebsd.org> <4EE25274.5040602@FreeBSD.org> <CADLo838cU8BBqkHNL8AU3Lu0mhz9eST7Xq9TBBVWVzuhhtAvEA@mail.gmail.com> <CAGFTUwOdXKnC5aYyrd%2B54aTb8WH3U5kDdteDW2xoCWKf99-f=Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/09/2011 11:44, b. f. wrote: > On 12/9/11, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 9 Dec 2011 18:25, "Doug Barton" <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> Surely there's a lot of value placed on being in sync with upstream? Too much, that was sort of my point. :) > If there are no changes relevant to FreeBSD, there is little value in > updating, and some cost, since updating leads to rebuilds in > package-building clusters, in tinderboxes, and on the machines of many > users. Right ... not to mention needlessly updating production systems. >> Are we supposed to pick and choose updates based on the maintainer's whims? > > Of course not on whims, but on the changes in the new version. The port maintainer's job is not to blindly update everything in sight. Otherwise the job would be called "UPDATER=". :) That said, Philippe's answer was that the changelog is not complete, and that there actually were valuable changes included in this revision. I'm happy to take his word for that. Doug -- [^L] Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/
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