Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:57:51 -0400 From: AlanE <alane@geeksrus.net> To: Anders Andersson <anders@hack.org> Cc: alane@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/automake/files patch-Makefile.in patch-aa patch-ab patch-aclocal.in patch-ad patch-automake.texi Message-ID: <20021015125751.GA72199@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> In-Reply-To: <20021015091944.GA649@sushi.sanyusan.se> References: <200210150652.g9F6qYnr027863@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021015065725.GA62934@terry.dragon2.net> <20021015073843.GA89745@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20021015091944.GA649@sushi.sanyusan.se>
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:19:44AM +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: >On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 03:38:43AM -0400, AlanE wrote: >> For three patch files I didn't think it was worth it. I'm doing the same >> thing in the autoconf ports. None have much history, and what history >> is/was there isn't terribly relevant... that is, not like Makefile >> changes etc. It really comes down to a judgement call, and I'm the >> maintainer of the whole auto* pile of <whatever>, and if I don't see any >> value in it, then it's not worth the bother to myself and to the others >> involved. > >I dont understand this reasoning, since I think it would be valuable to >have the history of these sort of critical ports even in the future. We >can't rely on you being the maintainer forever. I guess it's just a differnce of opinion. I'll consider what you've said the next time I am faced with a similar situation, and ask a portmgr for an opinion before doing such a non-repo rename. -- Alan Eldridge Unix/C(++) IT Pro, 20 yrs, seeking new employment. (http://wwweasel.geeksrus.net/~alane/resume.txt) KDE, KDE-FreeBSD Teams (http://www.kde.org, http://freebsd.kde.org/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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