port maintaince procedural questions

[Doug Barton]

Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> I have brought a older port maintained by ports at freebsd.org to the 
> current version.... I have done all the work needed to make it 
> committable.... I have several questions first:
> 
> 1. How do I take maintainership of the port?

Just change it in the Makefile. Users who show initiative on updating 
orphaned ports are generally granted maintainership as a matter of 
routine.

> 2. How do I submit the patch to bring it upto date? (I know for new 
> ports I do PR with a special subject but in a case like this).

You submit the patch via send-pr. Unified diffs are preferred.

Good luck,

Doug

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