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Date:      Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:45:03 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
To:        Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
Cc:        dinoex@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports/graphics/netpbm out of date
Message-ID:  <20110330054503.GA55298@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <201103291151.p2TBpLta040353@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <201103291151.p2TBpLta040353@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On 2011-Mar-29 13:51:21 +0200, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
>Both graphics/netpbm and graphics/netpbm-devel are *WAY*
>out of date (5 to 6 years).

I don't understand you.  In my experience, the netpbm ports have
always been updated fairly regularly.  The ports currently have:
STABLE_PORTVERSION=3D     10.26.64
DEVEL_PORTVERSION=3D      10.35.80

10.26.64 is the last of the 10.26 series and was released
almost exactly 18 months ago.

10.35.80 is the current "stable" version and was released=20
about 5 weeks ago.  The port was updated the day following
the release.

>What's making things is worse is the fact that the netpbm
>ports don't include any documentation.  Instead they refer
>to the online documentation which is way ahead of the
>state of the FreeBSD port, as explained above.

I agree this is annoying and don't understand the rationale behind the
way netpbm documentation is handled but that is not the FreeBSD
maintainer's fault.

>Is anybody working on updating the netpbm ports?  Is there
>any problem with it that I'm not aware of?

A quick check would have identified the maintainer (now Cc'd).

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Peter Jeremy

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