From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 3 10:10:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B197E37B503; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 10:10:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FreeBSD.org (baby.int.thehousleys.net [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e93HAWB03566; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 13:10:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jeh@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <39DA1308.14FA3EEF@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 13:10:32 -0400 From: "James E. Housley" Organization: FreeBSD X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Maxim Sobolev , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: Ports layout reorganization (Re: ports tree idea: Combine DESCR and COMMENT) References: <"Jeffrey <4.3.2.20000929140626.00c3fa00@207.227.119.2> <4.3.2.20000929220000.00e0d7e0@207.227.119.2> <20000930085603.V75085@puck.firepipe.net> <20001001223942.A49213@FreeBSD.org> <39D9C856.BF69AE64@FreeBSD.org> <20001003113520.E41798@puck.firepipe.net> <39DA0D1F.C3CA823D@FreeBSD.org> <39DA0F4B.5C38DBE8@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > Then put it on giveaway list and seek for a new maintainer. I'm pretty sure that > > there are many folks out of there who might want to maintain it (no, I'm not > > proposing myself, becuase it would mean complete rewrite in Python :-P). > > P.S. Portlint is too critical to allow it to be practically unmaintained, as we see it > currently, when it lags behind bsd.port.mk by several months. > I am not a Perl expert, never needed to be, but I do have a patch submitted. At least I think I submitted one. That bring PORTREVESION and PORTEPOCH into checking. I can't do it by myself yet, not good enough at perl to accept full responisbility, but will work with someone. Maybe, for startes do some work and have it reviewed by the current MAINTAINERS. Jim -- James E. Housley Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me in your ~/.signature to help me spread! <- Save this lifeform ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message