Re: WIP Package Life Cycle

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Kenneth wrote:

> After a package has been checked into pkgsrc, I noticed the files for 
> the package in wip were marked dead.  I don't understand the life cycle 
> of packages, so I'm asking.

What package?

(Since I don't know what package, my only thought is to do a "cvs log" on 
it and find out who did it and email them and ask them what their plans 
are for it. Or maybe the cvs log tells why?)

> 1) How do you make patches or upgrade the package in pkgsrc if all the 
> files are dead, or are you now supposed to work directly with pkgsrc, 
> and not with pkgsrc-wip?
> 
> 2) If the package does indeed live in pkgsrc from now one, shouldn't the 
> left over package in pkgsrc-wip be removed as opposed to just dead?


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