From owner-cvs-all Sun Feb 15 05:10:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA02421 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 05:10:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA02413 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 05:10:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jraynard@jraynard.demon.co.uk) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by post.mail.demon.net id aa1022288; 15 Feb 98 13:06 GMT Received: (from jraynard@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.6.12) id MAA07906; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:52:51 GMT Message-ID: <19980215125251.26042@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 12:52:51 +0000 From: James Raynard To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: merging of various /usr/src/contrib things to -stable; wanted? References: <1791.887542942@time.cdrom.com> <1816.887543084@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <1816.887543084@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 03:44:44AM -0800 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 03:44:44AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Just to follow-up to myself here: I didn't word that quite correctly > and now it sounds like I'm picking specifically on gawk. No offence taken :-) However, I'd advise against importing gawk into -stable as it doesn't work properly (the cnews expiry scripts break it, for example) and the GNU maintainer hasn't replied to my bug report of 3 months ago. Generally - well, I suppose the main "selling points" for putting code under src/contrib were to help importing new versions and feeding diffs back to the authors. Have these happened and are they something we're likely to want to do in -stable? Unless the answer to both those questions is a clear yes, I'd vote against it. James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message