Re: pkg/46915 (chat/libotr 4.0.0 may break net/kdenetwork4 4.8.4 build on DragonFly)

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46915; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/46915 (chat/libotr 4.0.0 may break net/kdenetwork4 4.8.4
 build on DragonFly)
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 09:43:23 +0900

 On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 23:35:04 +0900, David Shao <davshao%gmail.com@localhost> 
wrote:
 
 >  I do not see how this breakage for the new API-incompatible libotr
 >  4.0.0 is the responsibility of the kdenetwork4 maintainer.  That
 >  FreeBSD ports felt the need to create a backwards compatibility port
 >  indicates a patch for the new API is not trivial.  Unless this patch
 >  already exists, the build for meta-pkgs/kde4 will remain broken for
 >  quite some time.
 
 Then, kdenetwork4 maintainer is the responsible person.
 He may know the patch, or decide to create libotr3 package,
 or drop libotr related features, and so on.
 
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