Instafix for FreeBSD ports brokenness on 10.0?

Jim Trigg jtrigg at spamcop.net
Fri Sep 30 21:37:29 UTC 2011


On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Erwin Lansing <erwin at freebsd.org> wrote:
> That said, this patch is the wrong place to fix a problem to autotools.
> It needs to be fixed in autotools, not bsd.port.mk.  No matter if it's
> bsd.ports.mk or autotools, such a fix needs proper testing, for which
> we do not currently have the resources as we are concentrating on
> releasing 9.0.  I would suggest you do the same and make 9.0 the best
> release possible during the next few weeks, after that we'll start
> looking into 10.0.

I have to admit that my reaction is not so much "Why won't you fix
ports for 10.0" as "Why was 9.0 dropped out of CURRENT and 10.0
introduced before 9.0 went STABLE?"

Jim


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