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Date:      Fri, 8 Feb 2013 21:35:38 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
Cc:        office@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Bumping libreoffice
Message-ID:  <20130208203538.GA57852@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20130208201926.GB55651@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <511548F2.4030303@bsdforen.de> <20130208201926.GB55651@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>

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On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 09:19:27PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 07:50:26PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> > Please take note of Porters' Handbook section 5.2.2.1.
> >=20
> > Build fixes are NOT a reason to bump portrevision!
> >=20
>=20
> Working on ports like LibreOffice is painful enough to have such aggressi=
ve
> reaction. First the bump is deserved just because the package with default
> options changed and to help the maintainers knowing exactly which version=
 people
> are building when they report failures.
> Second LibreOffice is really hard to get building with all the different =
variation
> of the ports people can have ( mixed libstdc++, not uptodate version of d=
ependencies,
> people with weird cflags and ldflags, and so.
> Jung-uk Kim is doing a terrific work that is totally uneasy. He manages t=
o get
> LibreOffice building correctly and working without too much revision bump.
>=20
> Have a look at the history Jung-uk has never done any graticious bump on =
this
> port.
>=20
> I personnally resigned on maintaining LibreOffice exactly because of reac=
tions
> like this one, (also because Jung-uk Kim is actually doing a far better j=
ob on
> it than me :)).
>=20
> regards,
> Bapt


Sorry I probably over-reacted because I still remember the frustrations from
when I maintained LibreOffice.

Bapt

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