Re: 2013Q3 freeze pre-announcement

["OBATA Akio" <obache%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:27:16 +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger 
<joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 08:22:36PM +0900, OBATA Akio wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 19:17:56 +0900, Joerg Sonnenberger 
> > <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > >On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 09:15:18AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > >>The freeze for the next pkgsrc branch, 2013Q3, is scheduled to start
> > >>on Sunday, September 15, at 22:00 UTC, and expected to last for two
> > >>weeks, as usual.
> > >
> > >I think it is time again to prune some PostgreSQL versions. So I would
> > >like to kill 8.4 and 9.0 now and change the default version to 9.2.
> >
> > Does such desire to purge come from as a bulk builder?
> > Because you are not maintaining PostgreSQL packages so I guess that
> > it is not came from reducing cost of maintenance.
>
> It also comes as a cost for pkgsrc-security and releng.

As a member of pkgsrc-security, I feel so notable cost about PostgreSQL,
and then, it is rare that PostgreSQL related pullup is requested.

> > >At the same time, I would like to change the default Motif implementation
> > >unconditionally to x11/motif.
> >
> > Before it, mk/motif.buildlink3.mk must be fixed first.
> > It will  not work as expected after update of x11/openmotif
> > (failed to detect installed openmotif package) and import of x11/motif
> > (no way to detect installed motif package).
> > MOTIF_TYPE_DEFAULT=dt with X!!_TYPE=modular is bad combination, should be 
> > rejected.
> > ...and so on...
>
> My plan was to rip out the automatic detection completely. Given the
> legal issues, it wasn't an option before with openmotif. But now, I
> don't see a reason for not wanting x11/motif.

reason for not waiting x11/motif are:
* If X11_TYPE=native, builtin motif also should be preferred
* If any of motif is already installed from pkgsrc, it should be preferred.

But I have no objection to drop lestiff/openmotif from pkgsrc.
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