Re: pkg/37707: upgrade proposal for mail/vm

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/37707; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/37707: upgrade proposal for mail/vm
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 18:26:15 +0000

 On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 06:10:05PM +0000, Anthony Mallet wrote:
  >  | please do (or whatever you're currently using -- even an outdated
  >  | version would be an improvement over what's currently in pkgsrc, which
  >  | is 7.19.)
  >  
  >  I have already provided a vm-8.14 draft package to Andreas
  >  Gustafsson who is currently working on this issue.
 
 Ok, thanks. If he doesn't get around to it or something, go ahead and
 post it here.
 
  >  | I dunno why nobody handled this update back when it was submitted;
  >  | maybe it's because it was marked low priority...
  >  
  >  Well, there are probably other packages that need more attention than this
  >  one. I don't know how many users of vm there are, nowadays ;)
 
 There may be, but that doesn't necessarily have that much correlation
 to what gets worked on. :-)  Update patches tend to get handled fairly
 rapidly in general because they don't tend to require much work.
 
  >  Thanks for your feedback, I hope to be able to get rid of my diffs soon :)
 
 You're welcome :-)
 
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 David A. Holland
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