Re: Upgrade pkgsrc-wip/garage to v2.4.0

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Gergely Nagy <gergo%csillger.hu@localhost> writes:

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> Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> writes:
>
>> I don't understand why you are mailing a patch to change wip, instead
>> of asking for wip access and updating it.
>
> Because I haven't touched NetBSD (and pkgsrc) in 20+ years up until two
> weeks ago. I do *not* want to commit directly, and would prefer a review
> by someone who knows what they're doing.

I can see that, but the usual practice is first write to the maintainer
or the person who added it, and ask them, and if they don't reply, go
ahead.

>> Either way, it's good to ask the people that previously contributed to
>> the wip package, and presumably that's the CC.
>
> I sent it to the maintainer, and put -users@ on CC, because the
> maintainer listed haven't touched it since 2024 (and noone else did,
> either), and their last commit to wip was in early 2024 too.
>
> OTOH, you're the second person to tell me to just get a wip account, so
> I'll consider doing that for future patches. :)

wip is the place where we review.  It's far easier for me to just update
wip and read things, and either add to TODO or fix things, than to mess
with patches.

The only real question is if you are confident that your changes are
better than what's there, and a package that's 2.5 year out of date is
definitely worse than one which is up to date and builds.   Basically,
as a group we try to move everything to perfection, but as long as
things are better it's progress.