Re: pkg/22947: cleanups for the messages printed by the script generated by pkg.install.mk

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/22947; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/22947: cleanups for the messages printed by the script 
generated by pkg.install.mk
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 11:36:51 +0100

 On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 07:07:22PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
 > While I appreciate your concern and your suggestions, they are
 > ridiculous and completely out of context in this specific situation.
 > 
 > Have you actually read the PR in question!?!?!  It would seem not.
 > 
 > This PR contains a very VERY SIMPLE LITTLE patch that provides more
 > accurate and detailed messages about some very important package
 > installation steps.
 > 
 > The original patch submitted was against a revision of the file that was
 > only a couple of days old at the time.
 > 
 > It was submitted September 25, 2003.  Two thousand and THREE.  18 months!
 
 I'm sorry we don't get around to many PRs on a timely fashion.
 We're working on improving that though.
 
 I cut out the rest of your mail.
 
 If you want to get a patch applied to NetBSD itself, you are usually
 asked to send it against HEAD, not against any of the release
 branches.  So I guess that jlam expected you would send a patch
 against the HEAD.  Additionally, if you would take a look at the
 CVS logs for mk/install/install, you'd see that quite major changes
 have been committed in January and February, so major that I didn't
 find a single line of context for most parts (i.e. all but the
 trivial part I committed) of the updated patch you supplied.  These
 are _not_ simple merge conflicts.
 
 Are you willing to supply an updated patch that applies against
 -current pkgsrc sources? Though at this point probably the 2005q1
 branch is ok too, since it has just been cut and no big changes
 have been committed to mk/ yet.
 
  Thomas