From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 15:49:31 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 1D8A1106564A for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:49:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexkozlov0@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DB678FC12 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:49:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so1475915fxm.13 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:49:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition; bh=LD+5GbYumNp5TVYBS5JsaFTaNfZeEx/nYvePhLWz9gs=; b=xbBkwVGDe6QEaJiozSVhSgpaX5RIun6oVJCQp2b0ouZm7mRmstC4itW+pI3TE9vDUK vYaRlPcUo8tSrUVO9+a8qwgz5LrbWirafZDeVHPV3Xd9uRV/OHyy0Zc5WPuJ+NK4sRr2 8DHxtydztlsHcFcbKxQortZRpPJYjdmt+p6vQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:date:from:to:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition; b=cWQ+094UwZJT4EeNCCmOAqZ6y24ZFrhu0IGkeBaJ7N92Wf2UC15ZfqDwZXaeCPcudU 4iIniE0/WK4LX77ZMwT4FBjDqvh49z5tSA/HyCJnUAH4EfxehHmpUf8S6ZcHCQ4sz0rD HZGN/mosLfCKh/joBIeYXu+PYuKpBbKxQlNBI= Received: by 10.223.127.210 with SMTP id h18mr538695fas.46.1301500169220; Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:49:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ravenloft.kiev.ua (ravenloft.kiev.ua [94.244.131.95]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n7sm97432fam.11.2011.03.30.08.49.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:49:28 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Alex Kozlov Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:48:54 +0300 From: Alex Kozlov To: Oliver Fromme , dinoex@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, spam@rm-rf.kiev.ua Message-ID: <20110330154854.GA10523@ravenloft.kiev.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Re: ports/graphics/netpbm out of date X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: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 15:49:31 -0000 On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 04:45:03PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > 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out of date (5 to 6 years).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= 10.26.64 > DEVEL_PORTVERSION= 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 > about 5 weeks ago. The port was updated the day following > the release. >From netpbm website(http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/release.html): Advanced: This series stabilizes for about a quarter year, then is rebased to the then-current Development release. That's typically bug fixes, but some enhancements fit the category and some bug fixes do not. "Stabilizes" means that new releases contain only low risk high reward changes from the previous release. Stable: This is like Advanced, except that it gets rebased to the then-current Advanced release instead of Development, which means it the current release always has at least 3 months of stabilization. When it is time to rebase the Advanced series, if the current Stable release has gone a whole quarter year with no reported bug, we move all the current releases down one series: Stable becomes Super Stable, then Advanced becomes Stable, then Development becomes Advanced. At the moment(http://netpbm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/netpbm/stable/version.mk?view=log): 10.47.27 Super Stable: The current release in this series has no known bugs and virtually no undiscovered bugs in it. It may be years behind in new function. At the moment(http://sourceforge.net/projects/netpbm/files): 10.35.80 So why netpbm is 10.26.64 and graphics/netpbm-devel(??) is 10.35.80? >>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). Sigh. -- Adios