Unmaintained ports [was: Re: Unmaintained ports with fetch errors]

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 14:05:12 -0800, Michael C. Shultz  
<reso3w83 at verizon.net> wrote:

> On Monday 14 February 2005 02:01 pm, you wrote:
>> On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 22:39:27 +0100, Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org>
> wrote:
>> > Michael C. Shultz píše v po 14. 02. 2005 v 13:24 -0800:
>> >> Mark, I'd love to take over gettext.  The way that one is packaged
>> >> has annoyed me for ages. Do I just submit a PR taking over
>> >> maintainership or do I wait until someone gives the ok?
>> >
>> > Uhh, how exactly you want to change gettext port?
>
> I intend to eliminate it running configure in all the subdirectories.

I think, this part should be contract to the gettext developers. Unless,  
you mean by you dislike the 'LIBTOOLFILES' then this is need for the  
libtool. I don't see how it can be annoy for anyone as long it installs  
and functions fine.

>> > It's one of the core ports, ports such important even no brave
>> > knight of the round table ever dare to claim maintainership on it
>
> Chickens ;)
>> > ...
>>
>> I agree.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>
> Well I think I can handle it and I will happily submit changes to
> anyone who wants to see them for themselves before hand.

Please, go ahead and portmgr will taking a look at it because it might  
required to be test in the cluster build.

Cheers,
Mezz

> -Mike


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