Requests for port updates

[Eitan Adler]

On 18 June 2014 21:57, Dewayne Geraghty
<dewayne.geraghty at heuristicsystems.com.au> wrote:
> Has bugzilla taken on the role of being the repository for update
> requests?

Update requests should never have existed in GNATS and should not be
in bugzilla unless they have a patch attached.
(note: this refers only to update requests and not to bug reports).

>  With gnats, when the synopsis contained port information (eg
> mail\opendkim ...) the "issue" was routed directly to the maintainer.
> If there is no auto-routing then how is a maintainer to be alerted to a
> port request - unless they happen to refer to bugzilla.

There will be auto-routing - it just isn't in place yet.

> mail/opendkim - current PORTVERSION is 2.8.3, while version 2.9.2 has
> been available since April and uses --with-lmdb
> sysutils/cfengine36 - released today.  Modified the VERSION number and
> built 3.6.0 cleanly. Preliminary testing ok. (also uses lmdb)
> www/phpbb3 - Changing PORTVERSION=3.0.11 to 3.0.12 and building is ok too.

portscout is supposed to take this role.

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Eitan Adler