New port or update an old one?

[Boris Samorodov]

28.04.2014 18:59, pauline martin пишет:
> 
> I have recently forked and updated k9copy.  It now builds with the current
> developmental releases of ffmpeg.  I intend to keep making improvements to
> the project and I would like to see it get into the ports tree.  I have
> written and tested a ports Makefile, pkg-plist, etc.  However, I do not
> know whether the correct procedure in this situation (seeing as it is
> technically a fork), would require that I ask and wait for a response from
> the current maintainer of k9copy (in the ports tree as k9copy-kde4) or if I
> should submit it as a new port.  The current one in the ports tree is
> release 2.3.4, the last of the original developer's releases was 2.3.8.

Sure, it's (2.3.4 -> 2.3.8) an update. Please, send a PR with your
patch. Then when (if) the maintainer approves, it will be committed.

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