Re: Unmaintained FreeBSD ports which are out of date

From: Christopher Hall <christopherhall.hsw_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 05:37:49 UTC
Hello Steven,

For all my current ports I use arc command to submit to reviews.
Basically I use a Jain running Poudriere to test the changes in a their
own git branch, the make sure the main branch is up to date and my
branch is rebased before using "arc diff --create" to upload the patch
to reviews.freebsd.org

On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 15:07:02 -0600, Steven Stallion
<sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:

> If no one else is interested, I'm happy to take on maintaining
> comms/hidapi as I already have to track upstream releases for an
> unrelated project. Is there a process beyond submitting a patch to
> Bugzilla (I've had spotty luck in the past getting patches seen)?
> 
> Cheers,
> Steve
> 
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2023 at 2:07 PM <portscout@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > Dear port maintainers,
> >
> > The portscout new distfile checker has detected that one or more
> > unmaintained ports appears to be out of date. Please take the
> > opportunity to check each of the ports listed below, and if
> > possible and appropriate, submit/commit an update. Please consider
> > also adopting this port. If any ports have already been updated,
> > you can safely ignore the entry.
> >
> > An e-mail will not be sent again for any of the port/version
> > combinations below.
> >
> > Full details can be found at the following URL:
> > http://portscout.freebsd.org/ports@freebsd.org.html
> >
> >
> > Port                                            | Current version |
> > New version
> > ------------------------------------------------+-----------------+------------
> > cad/ifcopenshell                                | 0.6.0           |
> > blenderbim-230109
> > ------------------------------------------------+-----------------+------------
> > comms/hidapi                                    | 0.12.0          |
> > hidapi-0.13.1
> > ------------------------------------------------+-----------------+------------
> > sysutils/py-liquidctl                           | 1.10.0          |
> > 1.12.0
> > ------------------------------------------------+-----------------+------------
> >
> >
> > If any of the above results are invalid, please check the following
> > page for details on how to improve portscout's detection and
> > selection of distfiles on a per-port basis:
> >
> > http://portscout.freebsd.org/info/portscout-portconfig.txt
> >
> > Reported by:    portscout!
> >  
> 


-- 
Best Regards.
Christopher Hall.