ports/96379: PLEASE DO NOT SEND OPENVPN 2.0.7 REMINDERS!
Matthias Andree
matthias.andree at gmx.de
Wed Apr 26 22:00:41 UTC 2006
The following reply was made to PR ports/96379; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree at gmx.de>
To: Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, freebsd at unixfreunde.de, ports at freebsd.org,
freebsd-ports-bugs at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/96379: PLEASE DO NOT SEND OPENVPN 2.0.7 REMINDERS!
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:58:45 +0200
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Doug Barton wrote:
> Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Please close ports/96379.
> >
> > I am not accepting patches to update the FreeBSD/DragonflyBSD port
> > security/openvpn to 2.0.7.
>
> You may wish to consider whether the effort to continue telling people you
> will not update the port will be lesser, or greater, than the effort
> required to update the port.
My decision (call it ruling if you like) is that I will not ask
thousands of users to update just because a handful of fools can't get
past the version number to the changelog. Most of the requests had
actually been forwarded by committers to ask my feedback...
--
Matthias Andree
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