Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/archivers/libarchive

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 03:42:30PM +0200, Tobias Nygren wrote:
> On Tue, 26 May 2020 15:03:46 +0200
> Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 09:16:45AM +0000, Nia Alarie wrote:
> > > Module Name:      pkgsrc
> > > Committed By:     nia
> > > Date:             Tue May 26 09:16:43 UTC 2020
> > > 
> > > Modified Files:
> > >   pkgsrc/archivers/libarchive: Makefile Makefile.common
> > >   pkgsrc/archivers/libarchive/files: CMakeLists.txt Makefile.am
> > >       Makefile.in NEWS README.md aclocal.m4 config.h.in configure
> > >       configure.ac
> > 
> > I'm getting really, really annoyed by people messing up the repository.
> > If you don't know how to properly import a in-tree software, leave them
> > the heck alone.
> 
> Gatekeeping of core infrastructure is TBH also pretty annoying.
> Where is the documentation for doing it the proper way?
> If you can't take the time to explain why you think a change is
> wrong and you haven't provided the recipe for your secret sauce then
> please do not bother writing E-mails that discourage contribution.

I would care quite a bit less if it wasn't OBVIOUSLY broken. Seriously.
Doing vendor imports is not hard and yes, there is an actual
documentation for it. Why do I care? Because I have to spend my time on
the cleanup and it is not a one time cost either. Thanks to multiple
parties, libarchive and bmake are both a mess, making any maintainance
in them an order of magnitude harder for no good reason.

Joerg