svn commit: r402813 - head/misc/astrolog
Andrey Chernov
ache at freebsd.org
Wed Dec 2 08:27:09 UTC 2015
On 02.12.2015 10:30, John Marino wrote:
> On 12/2/2015 7:29 AM, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:
>> Author: ache
>> Date: Wed Dec 2 06:29:36 2015
>> New Revision: 402813
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/402813
>>
>> Log:
>> Unbreak port, update to the latest version of Swiss Ephemeris
>> (It does not require any patching, who mark the port BROKEN
>> can easily do it by yourself)
>
> This is an unfair comment.
> The *distfile* changed. That implies a poudriere run.
> THe person marking BROKEN often does it in a batch of a several ports
> that have starting failing in a bulk run. They aren't looking at *any*
> of them and rely on the maintainer or a user that cares to figure out
> what happened.
>
> In this case, it's as much work as you can ask without having to
> generate patches, so I don't agree with the second half of the comment
> AT ALL.
>
Well, this procedure makes unmaintained ports (like this one) doomed to
die even on slightest change (distfile moving to other site etc).
According to commit log I am a user that cares to figure out (and I
don't want to be maintainer), but the person who marks is BROKEN is not
bothered to investigate.
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