Is it deliberate that sysutils/u-boot-tools is not updated when u-boot-master (and company) progress?

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 17:38:58 -0700
Mark Millard via freebsd-arm <freebsd-arm at freebsd.org> wrote:

> sysutils/u-boot-tools is still back at 2020.07 :
> 
> Commit message (Expand)	Author	Age	Files	Lines
> * 	Remove # $FreeBSD$ from Makefiles.	Mathieu Arnold	34 hours	1	-1/+0
> * 	u-boot: Update to 2020.07	Emmanuel Vadot	2020-07-08	3	-14/+4
> . . .
> 
> But there have been 2020.10 and 2021.04 updates since then:
> 
> Commit message (Expand)	Author	Age	Files	Lines
> * 	sysutils/u-boot-*: Update to 2021.04	Emmanuel Vadot	16 hours	2	-5/+6
> . . .
> * 	sysutils/u-boot-*: Update to 2020.10	Emmanuel Vadot	2020-11-07	3	-4/+35
> . . .
> * 	u-boot: Update to 2020.07	Emmanuel Vadot	2020-07-08	3	-34/+5
> 
> I'll note that u-boot-master has:
> 
> BUILD_DEPENDS+=	gsed:textproc/gsed \
> 		. . .
> 		mkimage:sysutils/u-boot-tools \
> 		. . .
> 
> and u-boot-tools has:
> 
> DISTVERSION=	2020.07
> 
> This may well be just fine, such as if using somewhat older versions
> of u-boot-tools has historically been more stable despite version
> mismatches. But I figured I'd ask:
> 
> Is the use of the older u-boot-tools deliberate?
> 
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
> ( dsl-only.net went
> away in early 2018-Mar)

 Most of the time it's not deliberate as it's just that I forgot this
port.
 This time is was deliberate as some new tools fails to compile and I
didn't had time to look deeper for now.

-- 
Emmanuel Vadot <manu at bidouilliste.com> <manu at FreeBSD.org>