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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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