Subject: Re: Remove devel/cmdline?
To: Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/08/2004 08:35:14
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 07:44, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 15:04:56 -0700 (PDT)
> "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> > 
> > > devel/cmdline is broken with gcc3.  I've checked its webpage and there 
is no
> > > newer version of it.  Fixing it may not be trivial, and it's not 
probably worth
> > > to fix it, given that no other packages use it.
> > >
> > > Any objections to remove this package?
> > 
> > Is the package broken?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Does it work for gcc 2.x and official NetBSD release?
> 
> In 1.6.2, probably.  But it's broken in 2.0, as shown by latest bulk builds 
(and
> as I've just verified).
> 
> Cheers
> 

G'day,

why not just mark the package not suitable for netbsd > 1.6.2 in which case it 
would make sense to remove cmdline once netbsd <= 1.6.2 is nolonger 
supported. cmdline may not be a dependency of another package in pkgsrc, but 
may be in fact used by developers.

cheerio Berndt