svn commit: r347949 - in head/net: samba36 samba4 samba41

[Dmitry Sivachenko]

On 12 марта 2014 г., at 12:09, John Marino <freebsd.contact at marino.st> wrote:

> On 3/12/2014 07:19, Timur I. Bakeyev wrote:
>> The practice of certain commiters just randomly picking up ports and
>> making changes there without contacting maintainer beforehand becomes
>> more and more annoying and abusive recently.
>> 
>> I've spent all night, trying to put all the stacked changes all together
>> and test Samba ports when at a commit attempt suddenly learn, that
>> someone felt the urge to interfere and bump port versions just cause he
>> was in a mood. Well, thanks a lot.
>> 
>> And yes, I hate to change PORTREVISION.
>> 
>> Have a nice day.
> 
> Er, what?
> It was a security update.
> All the dependent ports had to be bumped in order to force incremental
> builders to pick up the security fix.
> As a bystander, I see nothing wrong with what happened, nor do I
> categorize that as abuse.
> 
> My quick judgement of the day: He's right, you are wrong.
> 
> I hope your day is nice too.
> 


Actually updating vuln.xml is enough to warn people about vulnerability.
So the actual update of the port could be easily postponed for some time, provided maintainer is responsive and update could be easily coordinated.

Your attitude does not encourage people to participate you know.