svn commit: r500480 - in head: Mk databases databases/rubygem-dbm databases/rubygem-dbm/files lang/ruby24 lang/ruby25

[Koichiro Iwao]

I understand not everything's up to the maintainer however I think we
should also discuss with the maintainer to let him know what violates
the policy and how the port should be. Is this discussion needs to be
closed? Let's have open discussion.

If no replies from the maintainer or urgent actions needed, I leave it
to ume if he exercise the right. 

On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 09:48:23AM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 02:16:28PM +0900, Koichiro Iwao wrote:
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > I'm not in a strong position on this but it's up to the maintainer.
> > File a new bug and suggest the maintainer to change the default option.
> 
> Not everything is up to the maintainer.
> 
> See https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/makefile-maintainer.html
> 
> For example, the part saying:
> 
>     We reserve the right to modify the maintainer's submission to better
>     match existing policies and style of the Ports Collection without
>     explicit blessing from the submitter or the maintainer.
> 
> In this case, I would say that this applies.
> 
> > On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 01:02:49PM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > >>>>> On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 11:22:58 +0000 (UTC)
> > > >>>>> Koichiro Iwao <meta at FreeBSD.org> said:
> > > 
> > > meta> Log:
> > > meta>   lang/ruby2[45]: Remove dbm library and replace it with databases/rubygem-dbm
> > > 
> > > meta> +OPTIONS_SINGLE_BACKEND=		BDB GDBM LIBC QDBM
> > > meta> +OPTIONS_DEFAULT=		BDB
> > > 
> > > It seems POLA violation to me.  Further, now, there is no way to
> > > access dbm 1.85 database from Ruby by default.  LIBC should be
> > > default, IMHO.
> > > 
> > > Sincerely,
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Hajimu UMEMOTO
> > > ume at mahoroba.org  ume at FreeBSD.org
> > > http://www.mahoroba.org/~ume/
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > meta <meta at FreeBSD.org>
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Mathieu Arnold

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