svn commit: r326241 - head/math/octave-forge-odepkg
John Marino
freebsd.contact at marino.st
Wed Sep 4 12:42:17 UTC 2013
On 9/4/2013 14:36, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>
> However, from a philosophical point of view, if a project external to
> FreeBSD makes source code that is not safe for the -j option to be used,
> should FreeBSD ports committers feel that it is our job to correct their
> source code?
>
> I think the answer should be "no," and it seems you disagree. I would
> like to hear what other people think.
>
Often issues like this are due to upstream not really understanding how
g/make works and when somebody points out issues and suggests a fix, the
fix is often taken with gratitude.
In general I agree with you, but if the fix is trivial, why not to try
to push it back upstream?
John
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