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Date:      Tue, 03 Sep 2019 04:29:49 -0700
From:      Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Cy Schubert <cy@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r510920 - in head/sysutils: . syslog-ng syslog-ng323
Message-ID:  <201909031129.x83BTn2d073337@slippy.cwsent.com>
In-Reply-To: <201909031118.x83BIUTl031197@slippy.cwsent.com>
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In message <201909031118.x83BIUTl031197@slippy.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert 
writes:
> In message <20190903082020.73tdsn7gio7svyfm@ivaldir.net>, Baptiste 
> Daroussin wr
> ites:
> > On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 03:31:57AM +0000, Cy Schubert wrote:
> > > Author: cy
> > > Date: Tue Sep  3 03:31:56 2019
> > > New Revision: 510920
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/510920
> > >=20
> > > Log:
> > >   Thank you to Peter Czanik, of Balabit the producers of syslog-ng, for
> > >   a port of the new syslog-ng 3.23 branch. This is 3.23.1.
> > >  =20
> > >   Submitted by:	Peter Czanik (CzP) <peter.czanik@oneidentity.com>
> > >   		Balabit (a OneIdentity company) / syslog-ng upstream
> >
> > Do we really need all possible revision of syslog-ng in ports?
> >
> > Do they have that many incompatibilities between each others that is it
> > mandatory to have all the supported one? isn't it possible to only live wit
> =
> > h the
> > lastest stable version? it seems most linux distribution are doing that and
> > happy with it, so does pkgsrc and openbsd ports.
> >
> > I think it is more confusing users than it does help them to have 15 differ
> =
> > ent
> > version of syslog-ng in ports.
>
> No we don't. I periodically cull older ones following consultation with our 
> upstream. It's probably time to do that again.

I've pinged our upstream for his input. We'll have a plan by the end of the 
week.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
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	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.





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