General clarification about ports and CouchDB 2.x specifically

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jun 14 15:33:12 UTC 2018


On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 04:21:57PM +0200, Andrea Brancatelli wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I know this is probably a good candidate for a "read the docs"-kind of
> question, but is there anyone who can clarify me whats the exact
> situation for this "new" port that seem to have gotten stuck in the
> middle of it's path? 
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218844 
> 
> I'm not very confident with the Ports' approval mechanism so I don't
> exactly understand what's going on... is there any hope to have Couchdb
> 2.x anytime soon in the pkgs? 

Looking quickly at it, the Makefile is a bit of a mess and needs a lot
more cleanup, but that can be done by a committer.  I think all it needs
is a committer to take it on, clean it up, and commit it.

I'll answer the PR with what I see needs cleaning up.

-- 
Mathieu Arnold
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