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Date:      Thu, 01 Jun 2000 09:44:59 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>
To:        Lars =?koi8-r?Q?K=C3ller?= <lkoeller@cc.fh-lippe.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/18644: hylafax and libtiff-3.4
Message-ID:  <3936066B.6194369B@freebsd.org>
References:  <200005311817.UAA15397@odie.lippe.de>

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Lars Köller wrote:

> ----------
>
> In reply to sobomax@FreeBSD.org who wrote:
>
>  > Synopsis: hylafax and libtiff-3.4
>  >
>  > State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed
>  > State-Changed-By: sobomax
>  > State-Changed-When: Wed May 31 07:09:25 PDT 2000
>  > State-Changed-Why:
>  > It is not a FreeBSD problem at all. It is unlikely that we would raise
>  > tiff-3.4 from the dead  just to run hylafax. Try to bug hylafax
>  > developers instead.
>
> Sorry, but that's not the right way I think!
>
> When you have a pice of software, that's really running stable which
> depends on software xyz, than you will do the hell and backport
> every new version of xyz into your software. You can do what
> you want, there are more bugs/problems than before.
>
> So I guess it is absolutely necessary to have a concept for this
> situation, and not to make preassure to the authors of a well
> working software, especially if they don't need the news features
> of software xyz.

You are free to modify hylafax port to build and link with its own libtiff
(whichever version you like). Then use send-pr(1) to submit your patches and I
promise that it would be committed ASAP.

-Maxim



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