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Date:      Wed, 28 Dec 2011 23:52:06 +0100
From:      Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net>
To:        Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r228896 - head/contrib/netcat
Message-ID:  <20111228225206.GG83814@acme.spoerlein.net>
In-Reply-To: <20111228211133.GA2731@lonesome.com>
References:  <201112260907.pBQ979X4098221@svn.freebsd.org> <4EF83AF4.9010108@FreeBSD.org> <20111228154049.GD83814@acme.spoerlein.net> <20111228211133.GA2731@lonesome.com>

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On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 15:11:33 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 04:40:49PM +0100, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> > It's better to have one person
> > (Xin LI) figure out if the change is needed or a no-op and do the
> > upgrade to match our version to upstream's version, than to have a
> > discrepancy between the two and cause half a dozen developers that
> > stumble upon that difference to scratch their heads and spend time in
> > figuring out if we should import the change.
> 
> We already have the following wiki page:
> 
>   http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsNotUpgraded
> 
> Perhaps an analagous page for src would be helpful?
> 
> mcl

We have

http://wiki.freebsd.org/ContribSoftware

that tries to track the state of anything upstream in src. Maintainers
are encouraged to add notes to their entries if there are reasons the
software is kept at a lower version or whatever.

See also the section for GPLv3'ed software on that page.

Cheers,
Uli



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