Re: new kyua import

From: Mark Johnston <markj_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2024 01:35:25 UTC
On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 02:29:38AM +0100, Moin Rahman wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Jan 2, 2024, at 2:23 AM, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It looks like the kyua repo here has received a number of bug fixes
> > since kyua was last re-imported back into the base system.  It looks
> > like neither the base system copy nor devel/kyua in the ports tree is
> > being kept up to date with https://github.com/freebsd/kyua.
> > 
> > In particular, we're missing a fix for
> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=273481 which is
> > available in github.  That bug is causing occasional failed CI runs.
> > 
> > Would anyone volunteer to import the latest version of kyua into the
> > base system?
> > 
> 
> I am not a src committer but if you want I can create a separate port
> for that. jmmv@ has been mia for a while and our fork is ahead of the
> original one.

Thank you, but is there really a need to add a new port?  Can we just
switch to https://github.com/freebsd/kyua as the upstream?  jmmv/kyua
has not gotten any new development or bug fixes in a long time, and I
cannot see any other places where kyua development is ongoing.

> Kind regards,
> Moin