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Re: wip/jed and wip/xjed committer request
> Did you write to $MAINTAINER?
I have not, is that normally how it works for packages not maintained
by pkgsrc-users?
> Why is LICENSE not in Makefile.common?
pkglint wanted me to put it into the individual Makefiles.
> WARN: jed/../../editors/jed/Makefile.common:4: Please add a line "# used by wip/jed/Makefile" here.
> WARN: xjed/../../editors/jed/Makefile.common:4: Please add a line "# used by wip/xjed/Makefile" here.
Those will be there until merged into -current because they will no
longer be in wip. There are comments for
"# used by editors/xjed/Makefile" and
"# used by editors/xjed/Makefile", however.
> It used to be that pkgsrc had a "releases only" norm, but this has
> eroded these days people seem to think it's ok to ask people to use the
> tip of some VCS and not have releases. (They are of course wrong....)
> Certainly after these are hoisted, adding wip/jed that follows the
> development releases is a reasonable thing to do.
Okay, could be interesting. Thanks.
> Did you look at what Debian and other packging systems do?
I hadn't but I did just look at it after reading this and it appears
that Debian's current stable branch (called bookworm) has switched to
using version "0.99.20~pre.178".
> Have you filed a bug upstream that there are no releases? I have found
> that sometimes that actually works. It is more likely to work if almost
> no packaging systems are willing to track their non-release.
I could do that and see what's up - good idea!
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