ports/lang major version updates outside of OS version updates

[Steve Kargl]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 08:49:43PM +0200, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2019 at 8:01 PM Steve Kargl
> >
> > My patches have absolutely nothing to do with making
> > 3.6 the default python version.
> >
> > I have added functions to libm that are included in
> > two ISO standards.  This causes a name conflict with
> > sinpi() in python.  My patches trivially rename
> > python's sinpi() to avoid the conflict.  For some reason
> > beyond the comprehension of mortal man, python at freebsd
> > refuses to add the patches to the port.
> 
> they asked for these patches to be upstreamed, and I did it, so these
> patches  now are in not yet released upstream python 2 and python 3
> branches.
> Backporting them to python at freebsd is totally trivial.
> 
> What else can be done here?

How about taking the patch in my previous email, apply
to your tree (any port committer can take the patch),
and actually commit it!

This isn't rocket science.  APPLY THE PATCH AND COMMIT!

-- 
Steve