Request for maintenance: Opera ports

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:04:50 -0400, Carl Mascott <cmascott at att.net> wrote:

> On April 8, 2003 I e-mailed the maintainer (des at freebsd.org)
> of the native Opera port to report an error in the port for
> Opera 6.11.  I asked him to check for the same error in the
> port for Opera 6.12.  The check requires typing one ldd command.
> I never got an answer to my e-mail.

ldd command isn't always help, btw.. For example, Opera required libXm.so.2 
to make the plug-ins work and it isn't in the ldd.

> On June 13, 2003 I e-mailed the maintainer again to report
> that both the linux-opera 6.12 and the opera 6.12 ports have
> the same error I reported in opera 6.11 on April 8.  The
> maintainer has not fixed either error.
>
> The error is the same in both ports: there is an erroneous
> dependency upon libpng.so.  Both linux-opera and opera are
> statically linked with libpng: libpng.so is not required.

You are right, thanks for found this out and I will send the PR to update 
www/linux-opera7 by remove the depend on libpng. I am the maintainer for 
linux-opera7 and will be on linux-opera when nork isn't busy.. I will have 
to email and ask nork if he's not busy anymore, so linux-opera7 can merge 
into linux-opera. des will let me to take over the maintainer job for 
linux-opera, which he already approved me.

Cheers,
Mezz

> I understand that there is a policy that if the port maintainer
> does not maintain the port, one can ask here for someone
> else to maintain the port.  Since it has now been over 2 1/2
> months since I first contacted the port maintainer, can someone
> else please fix this error in linux-opera and opera, so that
> users will not be installing unneeded support software?  Thanks.
>
> P.S. The fix requires deleting one line each from two
> Makefiles.


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