Re: Package fallout emails

From: Daniel O'Connor <darius_at_dons.net.au>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2022 07:17:20 UTC

> On 24 Sep 2022, at 16:35, Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> wrote:
> 
> On 24/09/22 03:47, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I maintain sysutils/pefs-kmod and I am getting email from pkg-fallout about it being broken, however it has been fixed (since August 17th - 79f9679c7e795de9a15451910526cea3ea50c21f)
>> Checking the emails shows it is trying to build the old version, obviously emailing me about it once makes sense but if the tree isn't being updated then it doesn't seem worthwhile to keep nagging.
>> Is something broken, or...?
> 
> Are the email from ports head or quarterly branch?

Ahh quarterly.

> Maybe it is fixed in ports head but the fix was not merged to quarterly?

Yes that is it.

> If that's the case you should merge it (if you're not a committer just file a PR asking for that, explaining which commits should be merged and why)

OK I didn't realise that was how things were done, my mistake.

Bug filed :)

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Daniel O'Connor
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