Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:07:16 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/net/openradius Makefile pkg-plist ports/net/openradius/files patch-aa ports/net/openradius/scripts configure Message-ID: <20050407200716.GA2384@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504071144160.27667-100000@pancho> References: <200504071222.j37CM4Vs039165@repoman.freebsd.org> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504071144160.27667-100000@pancho>
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As Mark Linimon wrote:
> > As the maintainer timed out on fixing this by about half a year,
> > and I need the port right now, I take the liberty to ignore the
> > maintainer bit here.
> You don't have to feel bad here, the maximum timeout for maintainers
> to look after their ports is 3 months.
OK.
> Have you asked the maintainer if he/she is still interested in
> maintaining the port?
No, I didn't. I simply needed the port, and so I hat to analyze and
fix the problem anyway.
However, as the maintainer supplied upgrade patches even after the
port had been marked BROKEN for 5.x, my guess is they simply didn't
know how and where to track this build problem. Due to the
{wonder,cumber}some makefile infrastructure of that software, I've
been quite baffled at first, too, and I think it requires quite a bit
of analytical experience to know where to start looking for it.
--
cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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