Re: pkg/50053 (Submission of new package: textproc/p5-Text-Aligner-0.12)

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

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From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/50053 (Submission of new package: textproc/p5-Text-Aligner-0.12)
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 21:24:13 -0400

 Previously, my understanding was that pkgsrc-wip was really for
 packages that are actually "works-in-progress", and it was
 unnecessary for finished packages to be placed there first. Though
 I can't find the email I'd read that said that (and that may just
 have been one person's opinion anyway). I see the pkgsrc guide lists
 either option for import (section 21.2), though most of the verbiage
 pertains to using send-pr and the pkgsrc-wip option appears more of
 an after-thought. If pkgsrc-wip is indeed the preferred means of
 import now, the guide should be revised.
 
 I don't have a pkgsrc-wip account, and it seems SourceForge is also
 down at the moment, so I'll have to wait to sort this part out. I
 have no objection to adding things via pkgsrc-wip, though in this
 case I find it a little messy, since there should never be a need
 for duplicates of these packages to continue to exist in pkgsrc-wip.
 They're not complicated enough that future revisions would ever
 become works in progress as opposed to quick patch sets sent via our
 old standby send-pr. Anyway, I'm not trying to be difficult, just my
 two cents as an occasional contributor.
 
 Dave