svn commit: r474820 - in head/graphics: . diff-pdf

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 18 08:08:29 UTC 2018


On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 09:59:50AM +0200, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 05:28:03PM -0700, Yuri wrote:
> > > On 07/17/18 13:59, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> > > > The PR adds version 0.2.  Any good reason why you silently updated the
> > > > software without asking the maintainer about it?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Yes, there is a good reason: the version 0.2 is from May 23, 2013, and the
> > > latest commit is much more recent, only 7 months old.
> > 
> > That is a reason, a bad one maybe.  Certainly not a good one.  Why did
> > not you consult with the maintainer before updating the port he created?
> > How can you be sure he aggres with it?
> 
> That is a *bit* over the top.
> 
> No sane maintainer will complain if the committer updates the
> submitted port to a newer version, as long as functionality isn't
> affected.

I did not say it was a bad idea to update the submitted port.  I said it
was a bad idea to do it without asking the submitter first.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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