svn commit: r228896 - head/contrib/netcat

[Ulrich Spörlein]

On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 15:11:33 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 04:40:49PM +0100, Ulrich Spörlein wrote:
> > It's better to have one person
> > (Xin LI) figure out if the change is needed or a no-op and do the
> > upgrade to match our version to upstream's version, than to have a
> > discrepancy between the two and cause half a dozen developers that
> > stumble upon that difference to scratch their heads and spend time in
> > figuring out if we should import the change.
> 
> We already have the following wiki page:
> 
>   http://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsNotUpgraded
> 
> Perhaps an analagous page for src would be helpful?
> 
> mcl

We have

http://wiki.freebsd.org/ContribSoftware

that tries to track the state of anything upstream in src. Maintainers
are encouraged to add notes to their entries if there are reasons the
software is kept at a lower version or whatever.

See also the section for GPLv3'ed software on that page.

Cheers,
Uli