From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 15 5:58:36 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34C237B401; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 05:58:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA0E43EAC; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 05:58:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (alane@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9FCvpj4008492; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:57:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9FCvpKF008453; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:57:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:57:51 -0400 From: AlanE To: Anders Andersson 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> Reply-To: alane@geeksrus.net References: <200210150652.g9F6qYnr027863@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021015065725.GA62934@terry.dragon2.net> <20021015073843.GA89745@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <20021015091944.GA649@sushi.sanyusan.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021015091944.GA649@sushi.sanyusan.se> X-message-flag: Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." I'll ask it about Exchange next. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 , 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