GNAT port is broken, maintainer don't care

[Frank Laszlo]

Rico Secada wrote:
> Hi
>
> During an atempt to install GNAT, in order to compile some ada code on work, I have noticed that the GNAT port breaks on RELEASE.
>   
Please send the applicable logs and error messages.
> <..snip..>
>
> Forgive me if I am wrong! But this can't be right. I believe it is better to NOT maintain a port rather than maintain a port, which you really don't have the time to make sure works. I am not a developer, I am unable to figure out what is wrong with the port, but thats not the issue. 
>   
This is true, but without any error report, there is no way anyone can
be sure what exactly the problem is.
> Simply put: "I am a maintainer of a port on FreeBSD, but I only have time to run current, and thus doesn't care a rats ass about if the port works on RELEASE, eventhough thats the most widely used version of FreeBSD."
>
> This can't be right!
>   

That is not what he said, he said that he is unable to test it on
another version, as he only runs -CURRENT. supply some error reports,
logs, etc of the problem, and someone will likely test it for you.

I myself had no problem building databases/gnats4 on -RELEASE.
databases/gnats is marked as FORBIDDEN due to a security issue.



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