[HEADSUP]: ports feature freeze now in effect

Steven Friedrich freebsd at insightbb.com
Mon Feb 15 22:11:50 UTC 2010


On Monday 15 February 2010 12:19:01 pm Erwin Lansing wrote:
> In preparation for 7.3-RELEASE, the ports tree is now in feature freeze.
> 
> Normal upgrade, new ports, and changes that only affect other branches
> are allowed without prior approval but with the extra
> Feature safe: yes tag in the commit message.  Any commit that is
> sweeping, i.e. touches a large number of ports, infrastructural changes,
> commts to ports with unusually high number of dependent ports, and any
> other commit that requires the rebuilding of many packages is not allowed
> without prior explicit approval from portmgr after that date.
> 
> When in doubt, please do not hesitate to contact portmgr.
> 
> -erwin
> 
I suspect this means we won't get KDE 4.4 for quite some time...


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