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Date:      Tue, 7 Sep 2010 10:14:17 -0700
From:      Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>
To:        FreeBSD Ports <ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: XPI infrastructure needs some love
Message-ID:  <20100907171417.GD82876@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C866AB3.4030802@lapo.it>
References:  <4C866AB3.4030802@lapo.it>

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Quoth Lapo Luchini on Tuesday, 07 September 2010:
> Dear port committers,
>     I understand that infofarmer@ and miwi@ have no more enough free
> time to be hyper-active about those and other ports (and btw, thanks
> very much for the huge work you did in the past!), but is out there
> anyone else out there with both a commit bit and some time on hand to
> give a bit of love to the XPI ports?
>=20
> Maybe it's just my impression, but it seems they've got some bitrot, and
> I feel a little pity for them, both as an user and a maintainer. ;)
>=20
> For those which might be interested, a quick list of the ones that need
> some attention (that I own or I could find as open with PR queries):
>=20
> Date       Number Description
> 2008/08/27 126876 Makefile.xpi's xpi-gen gets the wrong id sometimes
> 2010/05/23 146854 Update port: www/xpi-gbutts update & rename
> 2010/07/01 148282 [PATCH] www/xpi-tabmixplus: fix XPI_ID
> 2010/08/26 149987 [NEW PORT] mail/xpi-dispmua: Displays icon of MUA
> 2010/08/02 149211 [PATCH] www/xpi-vimperator: update to 2.3.1
> 2010/09/06 150327 [PATCH] Makefile.xpi: do not install XPI metadata
> 2010/09/06 150328 [MAINTAINER] www/xpi-stumbleupon: update to 3.73
>=20
> 126876 and 150327 are my proposals to enhance the Makefile.xpi
> infrastructure, the rest is mostly updates.
>=20
> yours truly,
>=20
> --=20
> Lapo Luchini - http://lapo.it/
>=20
> "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
> tried it." (Donald Knuth, 1977-03-22)
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I applied 149211 to my own development system running 8.1-STABLE, and
I've been using it daily since the bugathon.  Someone could just commit tha=
t.

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