Subject: Re: PR etiquette
To: Carson Chittom <carson@sdf.lonestar.org>
From: Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 01/28/2007 14:00:14
As I mentioned in my earlier email about guile-www, I'm trying to
install finance/gnucash. When one of its dependencies, gnome-vfs2,
failed to build, a search of the PR's found someone with the same
problem on the same OS as well as a very simple fix (it's PR 35263, if
you're curious), but on a different minor version of gnome-vfs2
(2.16.0 versus 2.16.3). I'm very much a newbie to pkgsrc and the
NetBSD way of doing things, so I'm not sure of the etiquette: should
I just let it sit since, after all, the fix is easy and works? Email
the maintainer to say that it's still a problem with .3? Add on a "me
too" to the PR? I just don't want to stick my foot in my mouth.
If the patch still works on a later version, that's real and useful
information, so appending a short note to the PR with the facts is
perfectly proper.
But I see Roland has already applied the patch and closed the PR, so
no need in this case.
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Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>