From owner-svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Wed Dec 2 08:32:44 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A47AA34098 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2015 08:32:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailing-machine@vniz.net) Received: from mail-lf0-f49.google.com (mail-lf0-f49.google.com [209.85.215.49]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2924C1567 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 2015 08:32:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailing-machine@vniz.net) Received: by lfaz4 with SMTP id z4so41004201lfa.0 for ; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:32:35 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=FIAqrRiMSdoMmCRCqlEEJnyYpF6yCfrN59Va2FVOwF8=; b=Op5U8VVP71DnfaVGs4IH8VTOXJX8wndnsMVaU3GDfTa8RFLiIU8YFa33rqSU7NcTKr 9FBBbZbvIVedKr5z/jMFSDMJ4ePzNpyqrVjkcst6TRR0KVdCBxJwDvV+xoEmP4XtTlAk KGxYqOPdnitmsZTWDDrCUe1/U7XBUEiZx8YNLz5CW573HgWh15Kb9lh+t7bFn2M8ZAkt 9f0q68vNtY2IMD7YFZADkmmZEVb6o/2Shfa4Vmpg5ymGyuNDUUU0CckuV5kK30OQgYkm 92oqi3D5RKtJWGNUiVUbPz1dy3BrGPgseVNXmxqQ8094LDcdjgqfgq3vDyX1IXx8ywlC J4ow== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlF5RoMXn1s7n36m/Q2l9H7X9aCO+uoHAqPLbwUB4ONM2bZk6e0JNz+Y4wg7dh5kFmWM6dV X-Received: by 10.25.90.195 with SMTP id o186mr1260105lfb.9.1449044820556; Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:27:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([89.169.173.68]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l128sm279658lfd.10.2015.12.02.00.26.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 02 Dec 2015 00:27:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: svn commit: r402813 - head/misc/astrolog To: marino@freebsd.org, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org References: <201512020629.tB26TbDb060296@repo.freebsd.org> <565E9DFA.6050502@marino.st> From: Andrey Chernov Message-ID: <565EAB52.6010301@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 11:26:58 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <565E9DFA.6050502@marino.st> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 08:32:44 -0000 On 02.12.2015 10:30, John Marino wrote: > On 12/2/2015 7:29 AM, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: >> Author: ache >> Date: Wed Dec 2 06:29:36 2015 >> New Revision: 402813 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/402813 >> >> Log: >> Unbreak port, update to the latest version of Swiss Ephemeris >> (It does not require any patching, who mark the port BROKEN >> can easily do it by yourself) > > This is an unfair comment. > The *distfile* changed. That implies a poudriere run. > THe person marking BROKEN often does it in a batch of a several ports > that have starting failing in a bulk run. They aren't looking at *any* > of them and rely on the maintainer or a user that cares to figure out > what happened. > > In this case, it's as much work as you can ask without having to > generate patches, so I don't agree with the second half of the comment > AT ALL. > Well, this procedure makes unmaintained ports (like this one) doomed to die even on slightest change (distfile moving to other site etc). According to commit log I am a user that cares to figure out (and I don't want to be maintainer), but the person who marks is BROKEN is not bothered to investigate. -- http://ache.vniz.net/