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Date:      Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:07:34 -0400
From:      "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        dinoex@freebsd.org, Niclas Zeising <zeising@daemonic.se>
Subject:   Re: graphics/png status, when will 1.5.13 appear in ports?
Message-ID:  <F0.5D.12564.6EE8A705@smtp02.insight.synacor.com>

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>From my original post:

> I think graphics/png is at 1.5.12 in FreeBSD ports but 1.5.13?

> Does anybody know when 1.5.13 will appear or if there is a particular snag?

Niclas Zeising <zeising@daemonic.se> responded:

> Since we are in a feature freeze, and graphics/png is the dependency of
> a lot of ports, I don't think we'll see it in before 9.1 is released.  I
> am not the maintainer however, so I'm only guessing.
> Have you tried to update the port yourself, and send the patch as a pr?

I hadn't thought of that, but if I could do that, it would help me better
understand and work with the ports framework.  But would anybody commit it?

But png-1.5.13 was released upstream some time before the FreeBSD ports
feature freeze.  Yes, I know graphics/png is a dependency of many ports, from
the +REQUIRED_BY file in /var/db/ports/png-1.x.y

Tom



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