From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 18 1:55:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F77237B401; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 01:55:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.musha.org (daemon.musha.org [210.189.104.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B4D43E6E; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 01:55:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from knu@iDaemons.org) Received: from archon.local.idaemons.org (archon.local.idaemons.org [192.168.1.32]) by mail.musha.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA33519B2; Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:55:32 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 17:55:32 +0900 Message-ID: <86vg531xtn.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> From: "Akinori MUSHA" To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Archie Cobbs , Jun Kuriyama , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/textproc/expat2 Makefile In-Reply-To: <20020917211335.GD19442@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200209170636.g8H6arEQ051308@freefall.freebsd.org> <200209171824.g8HIOW8S051528@arch20m.dellroad.org> <20020917211335.GD19442@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.9.15 (Unchained Melody) EMIKO/1.14.1 (Choanoflagellata) LIMIT/1.14.7 (Fujiidera) APEL/10.3 Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Organization: Associated I. Daemons X-PGP-Public-Key: finger knu@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 081D 099C 1705 861D 4B70 B04A 920B EFC7 9FD9 E1EE MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by EMIKO 1.14.1 - "Choanoflagellata") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:13:35 -0700, kkenn wrote: > On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:24:32AM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: > > > It would be nice if there were some automated way of notifying the > > affected ports maintainers when this happens... > > You shouldn't have to worry about it; it's the responsibility of the > person who commits the library update to fix all the affected ports. Ideally, he or she should also have the responsibility to inform the maintainers of the dependent ports that the library update introduces some incompatibilities and ask them to test in advance of committing the update. However, we usually favor a more easy and practical approach, that is, "fix as it breaks something". -- / /__ __ Akinori.org / MUSHA.org / ) ) ) ) / FreeBSD.org / Ruby-lang.org Akinori MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( @ iDaemons.org / and.or.jp "When I leave I don't know what I'm hoping to find When I leave I don't know what I'm leaving behind.." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message