Re: Update Liferea 1.12.8 > 1.13.6 ?

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On 30/08/2021 17:05, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > I know that the 1.12.x branch is the stable branch and the 1.13.x is
> > the devel one and that most pkgsrc users will probably want to stay
> > with the stable branch, however the last 1.12.x update was more than a
> > year ago and the 1.13.6 release has fixed a few bugs.
>
> This is a situation where having a liferea113 package in wip seems like
> it would be useful, at least to allow people to share the work of
> maintaining an pkgsrc entry and patches to upstream for NetBSD and other
> pkgsrc platforms.

I've thought about that. The problem I have is: What if the package 
"proper" in pkgsrc changes and then the devel (1.13x) also changes? Do I 
have to keep track of both packages? For example, liferea 1.13 uses 
vector images as icons instead of png and this breaks something in 
*pixbuf*. A developer with commit rights puts a patch onto pkgsrc. Will 
I have to import the patch into wip or go my own way?

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Ottavio Caruso