Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 07:06:52 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/file/Magdir animation Message-ID: <20000704070652.A68184@mppsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <12096.962697722@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 10:02:02AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007040107000.45364-100000@green.dyndns.org> <12096.962697722@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 10:02:02AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 01:11:09 -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > > You should probably coordinate this with the file(1) maintainer, who was > > > certainly still active last year. > > > > I looked for a MAINTAINER line in the Makefile so I could do that, but there > > was none :-( It would be nice if people would claim advisory MAINTAINERship > > (as opposed to nothing at all, or dictatorial MAINTAINERship) more. > > You misunderstood me, and I might have communicated more effectively. > The file(1) package has an active maintainer outside the project. See > the file src/usr.bin/file/MAINT. Um, I haven't looked very hard in a while, but I think the last version of file I imported 3 years ago was the last maintained version around. I think that was file 3.22. There might have been a version 3.23+ at the time, but it had problems, so I didn't choose to import it. I tried the ftp site that I was referred to by the old file ftp site, and I can't get anything from there. So, I'm guessing that support for file has fallen off. After doing some searching, it appears that the old file maintainer is now a involved with NetBSD, so he might be maintaining file there. I did see that the last version imported to OpenBSD was the same version we have (obtained via NetBSD), although they also included some of our changes (e.g. convert the man page to -mdoc). With that said, I think we are pretty safe doing what we like with file as long as we keep following the copyright restrictions (which I think we are). If the maintainer is actually doing some work with this under NetBSD, then maybe we should sync file up with the NetBSD version every once in a while, but I wouldn't worry too much about it. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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