texinfo breakage

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 12 17:19:40 PDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 20:16, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > Sure.  PR/54883 it is, and I already assigned it to portmgr.
> >
> > (Once it is in, we'll need to update the porters' handbook and notify
> > all maintainers of ports with info files, but updating the ports should
> > be very straightforward.)
> 
> Since you committed my change, I updated some ports and contacted the
> maintainers of a few others; how do we want to handle the situation in
> general?
> 
> Can you (automatically) contact all authors whose ports exhibit this
> `make package`problem on bento, notifying them of the new infrastructure
> for .info files?  Below is a patch for sysutils/cfengine2 that can serve
> as a nice example for this mail.
> 
> What else should we do to inform all ports maintainers/developers of the
> new situation, and have all ports updated by 4.9-RELEASE?

I plan on adding INFO support to portlint very soon.

Joe

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