[FreeBSD Ports Version Check] Newer available versions for ports you maintain

[Eric Anholt]

On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:03 -0500, Albert Vest wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 21:06:23 UT
> Edwin Groothuis <edwin at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > As maintainer of one or more FreeBSD ports, I would like to inform
> > you that a new version is available for the following port(s):
> > 
> > Port                                 Current version New version
> URLs
> > ------------------------------------ --------------- -----------
> ----
> > devel/imake-6                        6.8.2           6.9.0       [1]
> ...
> > x11-servers/xorg-server              6.8.2           6.9.0
> [13]
> > x11-servers/xorg-server-snap         6.8.99.903      6.8.99.904
> [14]
> > x11-servers/xorg-vfbserver           6.8.2           6.9.0
> [15]
> ...
> 
> I'm looking forward to this.  I've been monitoring  freshports.org
> since you posted, but I haven't seen any of these commits show up yet.
> 
> One thing I don't understand is why you plan to bump xorg-server-snap
> so little.  I thought this port (like graphics/dri-devel) was supposed
> to be more bleeding-edge current than it's official counterpart.  E.g.
> when xorg-server goes to 6.9.0, shouldn't xorg-server-snap go up to
> (at least) 6.9.1 ?

(wrapping fixed)

There is no 6.9.0.1 snapshot (6.9.1 being a name that would be for a
stable release, not a snapshot), so xorg-server-snap isn't updated to
it.  There in fact haven't been any commits to the 6.9 branch that I
recall.  7.0 is the future, and we should get on the bandwagon soon.

-- 
Eric Anholt                                     eta at lclark.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/              anholt at FreeBSD.org
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