Re: git: ae7f77bb682a - main - devel/libevent-devel: new port had been copied from `devel/libevent'

From: Daniel Engberg <diizzy_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2023 20:36:48 UTC 
On 2023-06-05 13:48, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 01:39:43PM +0200, Jan Beich wrote:
>> Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> > +MAINTAINER=	kbowling@FreeBSD.org
>> 
>> Did you get approval before assigning the new port to someone
>> other than yourself?
> 
> Or it could be perceived as "stealing" a port which would lose
> its -devel suffix one day.  Also, it's kind of a fake repocopy
> (because there are no real ones in Git) and it helps to track
> history better, to some extent.
> 
> That said, feel free to reassign as you see appropriate if you
> strongly disagree.
> 
> ./danfe

Hi,

This fails to fetch and we're already tracking this in the PR Jan 
mentioned.
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-2.2.1-alpha-dev/libevent-2.2.1-alpha-dev.tar.gz: 
Not Found
On top of that there are upstream patches needed to make it usable for 
testing. I also share the view that we should avoid adding ports before 
assigning it to someone else without approval.

Best regards,
Daniel