Re: Outdated ports

Hi,

I see that sysutils/dunst was upgraded today. https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260918
Don't know why it was upgraded to 1.7.0 instead of the latest release 1.7.3.

Created a PR for x11/rofi. Waiting for the maintainer. Untested, I don't use this myself.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260925

Regards,
Ronald.

 
Van: Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com>
Datum: zaterdag, 1 januari 2022 22:20
Aan: Michael Fiano <mfml@fastmail.com>
CC: FreeBSD ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Onderwerp: Re: Outdated ports
> 
> On 2022-01-01 06:58, Michael Fiano wrote:
> > Forgive me if this is not the correct forum. I've only been using FreeBSD > for a a
> > couple months after a couple decades of Linux, and I noticed some popular > projects
> 
> Congratulations, and Welcome!
> 
> > have ports that are severely out-dated:
> >
> > sysutils/dunst is behind 5 releases, nearly a year old.
> > x11/rofi is behind 4 releases, more than a year old.
> >
> > There were some others too, but these are the ones I remember. I was under > the
> > impression that ports were kept fairly up to date. I am also aware that this > is
> > volunteer work and someone might have to be nudged. Can someone point me to > the
> > correct approach here?
> 
> Your best approach to this sort of thing is to file a pr(1) against the offending
> ports, via bugzilla:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi
> 
> >
> > In addition, there are quite a few projects that I have relied on > development Git
> > checkouts of, but no such port exists for those (except > editors/emacs-devel), as
> > well as some strangely missing ports ((Perl 6/Raku's reference > implementation:
> > Rakudo). I started reading the Porter's Handbook, and I hope to soon begin a > long
> > journey of maintaining such ports.
> 
> Thank you! :-)
> 
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Michael Fiano
> 
> -- Chris
> 
> 
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