From owner-freebsd-ports Wed May 31 23:45:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from blizzard.sabbo.net (blizzard.sabbo.net [193.193.218.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DAE37BF04 for ; Wed, 31 May 2000 23:45:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@freebsd.org) Received: from vic.sabbo.net (vic.sabbo.net [193.193.218.106]) by blizzard.sabbo.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA29713; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:44:12 +0300 (EEST) Received: from freebsd.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vic.sabbo.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA06949; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:44:58 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <3936066B.6194369B@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 09:44:59 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: uk,ru,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars =?koi8-r?Q?K=C3ller?= Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/18644: hylafax and libtiff-3.4 References: <200005311817.UAA15397@odie.lippe.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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