From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 17 17:48:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom1-069.telepath.com [216.14.1.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 824F437B424 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:48:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 28728 invoked by uid 100); 18 Sep 2000 00:48:22 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14789.26198.52639.362687@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 19:48:22 -0500 (CDT) To: Ade Lovett Cc: Mike Meyer , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Contacting port maintainers (was Re: ports/20737: audio/cdrdao ...) In-Reply-To: <20000917192702.K507@FreeBSD.org> References: <200009171829.LAA33988@freefall.freebsd.org> <14789.24413.963216.907782@guru.mired.org> <20000917192702.K507@FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Ade Lovett writes: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 07:18:37PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Nope. I thought submitting a ports pr would cause that to eventually > > happen. > That's not how it works, I'm afraid, except in the case of those > ports that have a maintainer set to "ports@FreeBSD.org" (ie: no-one) > > See http://www.freebsd.org/porters-handbook/port-upgrading.html It's not at all clear that that applies to bugs in the port, as opposed to the port being out of date. In fact, I've gotten pretty good responses on the pr's for such in the past. Possibly I've been lucky. However, since you didn't say you had done so, I sent a note to the maintainer of the cdrdao port asking him about this. Thanx,