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

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:52:36AM -0400, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, I think we need to spell this out in considerably more detail :-(

Kris
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