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Subject: Re: Who maintains the yacas port?
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> The yacas Makefile (/usr/ports/math/yacas) has ports@freebsd.org listed
> as the MAINTAINER. I'm wondering who the actual maintainer is. The
> current ports version is 1.0.53r1, which is extremely old now. There
> have been at least 9-10 public revisions since then.

Ports owned by ports@freebsd.org have no maintainer.

> I find myself using yacas quite frequently in my research, so I'd like
> to be able to use the new toys as they come out. Anyone know who I could
> contact to try to get the port upgraded?

Since you use the port quite frequently, and are interested in having it up
to date, would you like to become the maintainer?

If you're interested, you may find the Porter's Handbook
(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/index.htm
l) useful.

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Matt Emmerton