Currently we have a package emulators/simh which is "SimH 4"; the upstream is a fork from the older SimH 3 by Bob Supnik, but with lots of contributions from its main maintainer plus various other people. With Bob Supnik making more releases of SimH 3 (see https://groups.io/g/simh/message/1466 ), and the license of SimH 4 being changed to be non-open (see https://groups.io/g/simh/topic/91108560#1468 and several later threads on the same list; essentially this was triggered by https://github.com/simh/simh/issues/1059 ), and the release of Open SIMH (see https://groups.io/g/simh/message/1659), there is now the matter of how to deal with this in pkgsrc. Currently, we have - emulators/simh which we had for years. Now it cannot be updated further without getting a weird non-open-source license for the code (it is at the last point before the license change). - wip/simh3 Bob Supnik's recent release - wip/open-simh The recently created fork of emulators/simh, splitting off from just before the license change (so at this moment it is nearly identical to emulators/simh). The easiest thing to do would be to import the wip packages into pkgsrc and leave it at that. However an few further courses of actions appear possible: 1) Add a big note to emulators/simh that it must not be updated to a later version 2) Remove emulators/simh 3) Simply replace emulators/simh with wip/open-simh, i.e. pointing the old package name at the new upstream What seems to be the best thing to do? I tend towards 1) but I may be convinced otherwise. -Olaf. -- ___ "Buying carbon credits is a bit like a serial killer paying someone else to \X/ have kids to make his activity cost neutral." -The BOFH falu.nl@rhialto
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