Re: Protocol for requesting updates to packages?

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

Christopher Pinon <cjpinon%secondfloor.xyz@localhost> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to ask what the protocol is for requesting updates to packages
> in pkgsrc:
>
> - In the case of a specific maintainer, is it better to write to them or
>   is it better to write to this list?
>
> - In case the maintainer is pkgsrc-users, I guess that one can make a
>   request on this list?
>
> My present request would concern mail/milter-greylist , which is at
> v4.6.2 upstream (from 2016; see
> http://hcpnet.free.fr/milter-greylist/#downloads ) but at v4.4.3 (from
> 2013) in pkgsrc.
>
> (I'm using pkgsrc on NetBSD.)

One can make a request either way; MAINTAINER first is probably good.

But, there's work to be done, which is to prepare the update, and if you
want to volunteer to prepare an update in wip, that will definitely move
things along.