From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Sat Feb 27 01:45:32 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53610AB6EDA for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 01:45:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si) Received: from mail.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D191F678 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 01:45:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si) Received: from amavis-ori.ijs.si (localhost [IPv6:::1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3qBrK461zHzsG for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 02:45:28 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ijs.si; h= user-agent:message-id:references:in-reply-to:organization :subject:subject:from:from:date:date:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:content-type:mime-version:received:received :received:received; s=jakla4; t=1456537525; x=1459129526; bh=/j5 OIr0B9/sPy0RpsSOmj8TxkibRX43q5Ji5Cr2Y5D8=; b=ZjNLjDTUqlEEfertGcR JWmZFIXZ5mrb1EEmVjL3eLTtGsZn9XI2K6ZyPfpgVLg2ttHdZJDf2ZvsS8L0Wjv6 mANgEzHRy7IW0rxNIwhNgBfTYF8KEsa+Qgjvj5N8SWppUQGZnIQOFsYSMTSyV5Li JAuf+w3KNVa5Ce+oGV2975ts= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ijs.si Received: from mail.ijs.si ([IPv6:::1]) by amavis-ori.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:::1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with LMTP id xrzvDatbxZkF for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 02:45:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from mildred.ijs.si (mailbox.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::143:1]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3qBrK14CZQzsF for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 02:45:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from nabiralnik.ijs.si (nabiralnik.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::80:16]) by mildred.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3qBrK11rv4z1Cm for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2016 02:45:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from sleepy.ijs.si (2001:1470:ff80:e001::1:1) by webmail.ijs.si with HTTP (HTTP/1.1 POST); Sat, 27 Feb 2016 02:45:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 02:45:25 +0100 From: Mark Martinec To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail/postfix and mail/postfix-current need upgrading Organization: Jozef Stefan Institute In-Reply-To: References: <3f2105db035fe8b639905002c7524b45@mailbox.ijs.si> Message-ID: <7e27caa45fc106483ba96488a07ca1ee@mailbox.ijs.si> X-Sender: Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 01:45:32 -0000 |Obviously, the ports are not in sync with the current Stable and |Experimental branches of Postfix. Olli Hauer wrote: > No they are not and I plan the following to let users some time > for the transition to 3.1. > - mail/postfix (2.11.7) -> mail/postfix211 > - mail/postfix-current (3.0.4) -> mail/postfix > - postfix-current will be updated to 3.1.0 (released this week) > > In some weeks 3.1.x will become the default postfix, and 3.0.x > will be removed from the tree, postfix211 will stay as the last > postfix 2.x releases and current will become again current. > There are some users using VDA patches, only available for > postfix 2.8 but it also works on 2.11, there is no support from > the VDA project for 3.x and it seems the VDA project is no longer > alive. > On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:29:43 -0800 (PST), Roger Marquis stated: >> 3.2 is an experimental release. >> It would be misleading to label it current. On 2016-02-26 20:32, Carmel wrote: > The experimental version of Postfix has been labeled "postfix-current" > for as long as I can remember. To change it now would really confuse > some users. This was indeed the case (postfix-current == "The experimental" (development) version) a few years back. It was kept closely up-to-date with the latest development release. I lived under impression that it still is supposed to be so (but just happen to be lagging a bit) - but apparently this is no longer so. I wish the postfix-current would track the latest development release as it used to do. It made it possible for FreeBSD users to more fruitfully contribute back to the project by quickly responding to new features and potential problems. If this is deemed unsuitable, then there should be a new port mail/postfix-devel to track the latest releases (although then I don't know to what purpose a postfix-current would serve). Mark