From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 05:45:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91F75106564A for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:45:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@acm.org) Received: from mail12.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail12.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2348A8FC12 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:45:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-116-103.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.116.103]) by mail12.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p2U5j6Dl016309 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:45:07 +1100 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Received: from server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2U5j4WV055372; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:45:04 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by server.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p2U5j3Ew055371; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:45:03 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:45:03 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: Oliver Fromme Message-ID: <20110330054503.GA55298@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <201103291151.p2TBpLta040353@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201103291151.p2TBpLta040353@lurza.secnetix.de> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: dinoex@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/graphics/netpbm out of date X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:45:11 -0000 --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2011-Mar-29 13:51:21 +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: >Both graphics/netpbm and graphics/netpbm-devel are *WAY* >out of date (5 to 6 years). I don't understand you. In my experience, the netpbm ports have always been updated fairly regularly. The ports currently have: STABLE_PORTVERSION=3D 10.26.64 DEVEL_PORTVERSION=3D 10.35.80 10.26.64 is the last of the 10.26 series and was released almost exactly 18 months ago. 10.35.80 is the current "stable" version and was released=20 about 5 weeks ago. The port was updated the day following the release. >What's making things is worse is the fact that the netpbm >ports don't include any documentation. Instead they refer >to the online documentation which is way ahead of the >state of the FreeBSD port, as explained above. I agree this is annoying and don't understand the rationale behind the way netpbm documentation is handled but that is not the FreeBSD maintainer's fault. >Is anybody working on updating the netpbm ports? Is there >any problem with it that I'm not aware of? A quick check would have identified the maintainer (now Cc'd). --=20 Peter Jeremy --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk2Sw18ACgkQ/opHv/APuIddiQCguYAextgNrHozlX0a7OohG0bi zJ8AnAvnBVKcXkiHnjS+dk9dusQJSnsR =Q/Ki -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --OXfL5xGRrasGEqWY--