svn commit: r405907 - head/Mk

[John Marino]

On 1/12/2016 10:15 PM, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
> On 01/12/2016 02:15 PM, John Marino wrote:
>> On 1/12/2016 8:56 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>>> Author: stephen
>>> Date: Tue Jan 12 19:56:13 2016
>>> New Revision: 405907
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/405907
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   - Svn revision 405533 upgraded /math/octave to version 4.0.0.  This version
>>>     of octave segfaults with FreeBSD.  Many of the octave-forge-* ports don't
>>>     build, and those that build don't work.  So they are all being marked
>>>     broken until it is fixed.
>>>
>>
>> Why not revert 405533 instead (and set the epoch)?
>>
>> John
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Because I don't maintain the math/octave port.
> 

It seems if there was ever a reason to revert a port, this is it.
There are over 100 ports dependent on octave, I would think they would
have to be tested before upgrading octave (every time).

Did you contact maho@?

Maybe he should be the one to revert it, but somebody needs to.  The
situation is bad.

John