Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 11:56:19 -0500 From: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> To: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel Makefile ports/devel/p4v Makefiledistinfo.i386 pkg-descr pkg-message pkg-plist.i386 Message-ID: <402FA4B3.3020405@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <20040215015306.GB21554@sirius.firepipe.net> References: <200402142352.i1ENqx8b059528@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040215013237.GA21554@sirius.firepipe.net> <20040215014059.GD19592@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20040215015306.GB21554@sirius.firepipe.net>
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Will Andrews wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:40:59AM +0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > >>It is a completely new version with no files in common. A repocopy wouldn't >>have bought us anything. > > > Aside from the fact that the same piece of software used to be in > the tree as a Linux version? > > IMHO you should have at least asked for one, as the ports > committers guide recommends. I'm confused. Why would you want a repo copy when there is no relevent history to maintain? (since the history is for another program). And the Linux client might come back one day, so it would continue from the files that were killed. Richard Coleman richardcoleman@mindspring.com
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