Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:22:34 -0400 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to handle upgrade of libnotify when cups-client-1.4.8 is marked as broken Message-ID: <20110828152234.54cc9fac@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20110828184542.GE277@magic.hamla.org> References: <4E5A48AC.6050201@eskk.nu> <20058.20743.791783.342355@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <BLU0-SMTP182102B9C96837517ECB6BB93150@phx.gbl> <20110828172651.GB277@magic.hamla.org> <20110828173059.GT17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20110828181356.GD277@magic.hamla.org> <20110828183300.GX17489@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <20110828184542.GE277@magic.hamla.org>
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:45:42 -0400 Sahil Tandon articulated: > I am sorry users have had to "intervene" in managing their systems, > but rather than removing the option entirely, I prefer mandree@'s more > structural suggestion of re-prompting the user when defaults change. > In the meantime, a note in UPDATING about explicitly disabling the > GNUTLS option for cups ports is probably appropriate. I have copied > the maintainer in hopes that he will consider it. Sahil, I think you are being a little to flippant regrading this problem. Obviously any end user is responsible for maintaining his/her system. It is apparently that FreeBSD does not test updates as rigorously as other OSs might. Therefore, when the problem was first discovered in regards to "cups" and "GNUTLS" it is obviously that the end user would have to manually correct the problem. However, this is no longer day 0. The particulars of this case are well know. IMHO, a notice should have been inserted into the UPDATING file immediately -- in other words as soon as the phenomena was confirmed. To allow the port to be shipped with a known problem borders on criminal. At the very lest, it displays gross indifference to the users of FreeBSD. Nothing here is specifically blaming your for this problem. It takes more than one individual to screw things up this thoroughly. However, it takes only one person with a set of balls to get a solution implemented. The fact that you are actually going to wait for the maintainer the port in question to give his permission for you to issue a warning and hopefully a fix for this problem is pathetic. Seriously, and I don't mean any disrespect, but what government agency do you work for? :) -- Jerry ✌ jerry+ports@seibercom.net Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ The climate of Bombay is such that its inhabitants have to live elsewhere.
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