Re: Why is www/midori kept on old version 0.4.9?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 25 November 2014 at 13:17, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost> wrote:
> On 25 November 2014 at 03:19, Thomas Mueller <mueller6724%bellsouth.net@localhost> wrote:
>> I see on browsing the changes in pkgsrc
>
>> www/midori
>> Updated www/midori to 0.4.9nb17 [wiz 2014-11-24]
>
>> But midori is up to 0.5.9
>
>> Curiosity gets the better of me on why pkgsrc keeps updating an old version.
>
> Ottavio Caruso responded:
>
>> Even the 0.5.x branch is not that new. The timestamp is 17-May-2013 .
>
>> It doesn't seem midori is getting much attention upstream.
>
>> You can always try and hack the Makefile to point to the newer
>> binaries and see if they compile.
>
> I believe midori 0.5.9 is rather new, noticed it first on freshports.org .
>
> That is for FreeBSD ports, from which I built midori 0.5.8 largely to compare to 0.5.5 on System Rescue CD.
>
> I could look at the Makefiles for both pkgsrc and FreeBSD ports if I would try to build 0.5.9 for NetBSD.

Check one of my previous posts on this list about Midori segfaulting (
a bug report should also be there). You might have to load
dependencies from wip/.

Let us know if and how it worked.