cvs commit: ports/archivers/lzip Makefile distinfo

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 1 11:46:17 UTC 2009


Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> Marcelo Araujo wrote:
> > Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > Why would maintainer need to explicitly approve their changes?
> > 
> > It is very easy to answer, because he knows better than me if the new
> > version is usable or not. The maintainer submitted an update to 1.6, and as
> > we have a new release, I feel that was better ask the maintainer about that.

Why would maintainer (or anyone, really) submit version that is
unusable in the first place?

> > 
> > Generally the maintainer knows better than us what is good or not for your
> > ports. Of course everybody knows that.
> > 
> 
> When the maintainer submits an update to one of his ports then he
> rather obviously has also automatically approved the changes.
> 
> I think that is what danfe was getting at.

That's right.

./danfe


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