Re: Protocol for requesting updates to packages?

[Christopher Pinon <cjpinon%secondfloor.xyz@localhost>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:

> 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.

Indeed, I should probably look into wip. (I always imagined that I would
have to test a package on all supported platforms, which would be way
beyond my possibilities. :-D )

I was just hoping to prompt the maintainer ("pkgsrc-users") a bit, if a
bit of prompting was all that was needed ... :-)

C.