From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Feb 15 15:28:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from nagual.pp.ru (pobrecita.freebsd.ru [194.87.13.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E9D37B402; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 15:28:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ache@localhost) by nagual.pp.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1FNSWu49095; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 02:28:32 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 02:28:30 +0300 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" To: Konstantin Chuguev Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, i18n@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: iconv port: plea for take-over Message-ID: <20020215232829.GA49008@nagual.pp.ru> References: <3C6CE4AD.6306584F@dante.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C6CE4AD.6306584F@dante.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:36:30 +0000, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: > I am really sorry, but being the only developer I did not have enough time > to make new versions. Finally, it happened that I do not have any FreeBSD > systems around me. Unless somebody will take its maintainership, we need to switch to GNU iconv and mark iconv as BROKEN. Currently iconv have several problems which affects ports badly (like dead loops). GNU iconv libs/headers at this moment installed with non-default "g" prefix so require more ports patching efforts to use it. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message