ports/127743: Update devel/pwlib net/opal net/ekiga to GNOME 2.24.0

[Eric L. Chen]

The following reply was made to PR ports/127743; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Eric L. Chen" <d9364104 at mail.nchu.edu.tw>
To: "Stefan Walter" <stefan at freebsd.org>
Cc: GNATS <FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org>, steve at energistic.com, 
	mi at aldan.algebra.com
Subject: Re: ports/127743: Update devel/pwlib net/opal net/ekiga to GNOME 2.24.0
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:07:07 +0800

 On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Stefan Walter <stefan at freebsd.org> wrote:
 > Hi Eric,
 >
 > please note that it might be a better idea to send a problem report for
 > every single port to be updated, not a single PR updating multiple ports.
 > That makes it easier to track feedback for every update, especially since
 > multiple port maintainers are involved.
 >
 > Furthermore, the preferred form of an update of an existing port is a
 > patch in unified diff format, not a shar archive, since that makes it
 > easier to see what exactly changed.
 >
 > I'd recommend that you resend the updates as patches in separate PRs. If
 > the update of one port depends on the update of another one, just send the
 > PRs in the appropriate order and make a note in the description field
 > which PRs have to be processed first.
 >
 > I have cc'd the two port maintainers involved here, anyway, just to raise
 > their attention to what's currently in [1].
 >
 > Regards,
 > Stefan
 >
 > [1]: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/127743
 >
 Sorry for inconveniences.
 These ports work very tightly, this why I put them together.
 I'll re-send pr with unified diff format.
 
 /Eric