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Date:      Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:46:16 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
Cc:        Marcelo Araujo <araujobsdport@gmail.com>, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/archivers/lzip Makefile distinfo
Message-ID:  <20090701114616.GA11164@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090701133107.4d952dde@ernst.jennejohn.org>
References:  <200906301428.n5UESfiF022149@repoman.freebsd.org> <20090701073752.GA79351@FreeBSD.org> <20090701104451.GA1241@ponderosa.intelbras.com.br> <20090701133107.4d952dde@ernst.jennejohn.org>

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Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> Marcelo Araujo wrote:
> > Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > Why would maintainer need to explicitly approve their changes?
> > 
> > It is very easy to answer, because he knows better than me if the new
> > version is usable or not. The maintainer submitted an update to 1.6, and as
> > we have a new release, I feel that was better ask the maintainer about that.

Why would maintainer (or anyone, really) submit version that is
unusable in the first place?

> > 
> > Generally the maintainer knows better than us what is good or not for your
> > ports. Of course everybody knows that.
> > 
> 
> When the maintainer submits an update to one of his ports then he
> rather obviously has also automatically approved the changes.
> 
> I think that is what danfe was getting at.

That's right.

./danfe



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