Valid Sender ? - Re: cvs commit: ports/security/openssl Makefile

[Adam Weinberger]

Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:12:47AM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote:
>> Problems found:
>> a module of security/cyrus-sasl2 did not include "md5.h"
>> comms/kermit had an conflicting macro definition.
> 
> Then it doesn't meet the test of 'does not effect other dependent packages'
> which is what we keep trying to tell people is what we want the criterion
> to be.

But if he'd first made a commit to security/cyrus-sasl2 saying "be sure 
to include md5.h", and then a commit to comms/kermit saying "correct 
conflicting macro definition", and then updated openssl, there would be 
no complaints. Just playing devil's advocate here (note: dinoex, don't 
read anything into that ::P).

This is the same problem we see every single slush. Can portmgr please 
produce an explicit set of rules for port slushes? I know that the 
automatic response is "no sweeping changes," but it's pretty apparent 
that that means different things to different people. I know that it's 
tricky to define, but doing so would save everybody grief in the long run.

# Adam


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