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Date:      Fri, 6 Mar 2026 20:27:24 +0100
From:      Daniel Engberg <diizzy@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-ports-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 8bd89ab595cb - main - deskutils/qownnotes: the port had been updated to version 26.3.3
Message-ID:  <467d5bb3-f7ac-4733-98b4-b011050b5aae@FreeBSD.org>
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On 2026-03-06 19:30, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 05:50:56PM +0100, Daniel Engberg wrote:
>> On 2026-03-06 08:05, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>> commit 8bd89ab595cb9f03ab29068b1a0c08795d438781
>>>
>>>   deskutils/qownnotes: the port had been updated to version 26.3.3
>>>   Reduce vertical space to help Makefile maintainability by merging
>>>   sporadic use of helpers and two per-flavor conditionals into one;
>>>   drop needless default flavor assignment.
>>
>> You've now introduced more regressions (check portlint) and review
>> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook/book/#flavors-using .
>> Please fix your commit or back it out.
> 
> There's nothing to fix, it looks exactly how I want it to look without
> impeding future updates which I've been doing for past five years, as
> de jure maintainer is inactive.  I believe I've provided sufficient
> explanation in the commit log why I dislike scattering stuff belonging
> to one flavor around several places.
> 
> I appreciate your attention to detail, but rigorously obeying lint tools
> and general guidelines when they pessimize things more than do any good
> is bad engineering practice.
> 
> ./danfe

If you're intentionally introducing more regressions into the tree it's 
clearly not going to in the right direction. Does that mean people can 
take over your ports whenever they feel like it?

Best regards,
Daniel


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