Re: pkg/49421 (tme-1.0beta_4)

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/49421; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/49421 (tme-1.0beta_4)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 05:35:15 +0000

 On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:55:01PM +0000, phabrics%phabrics.com@localhost wrote:
  >  Thank you for your interest in this.  I am not the original tme 
  >  developer, which is why I did not submit it as a replacement.  This 
  >  package just contains some "upgrades" to the original package which 
  >  seems to have been static for a while now (save for a few patches here & 
  >  there).  These were my own work to try to get it to a "working enough" 
  >  state on some of my other boxes, as well as enhancements for them for 
  >  another project of mine to use as dependency at some point.  It had 
  >  gotten to the point where I had made enough updates that I thought it 
  >  would be worth sharing, but too big to be a patch.  If this duplication 
  >  is undesirable, I can resubmit to replace, but I didn't want to presume 
  >  that because it would be a major update and I wanted it to work well 
  >  enough not disturb anyone else who might depend on the original.
 
 If you're developing the thing, but you don't (yet?) want to become
 upstream, what I'd suggest is putting together upstreamable patches
 and posting them for download. Then we can add in the patch in pkgsrc,
 possibly even as a build option in the main package. And if upstream
 comes back to life, you're ready to send them what you've been doing.
 
 I do some of this; see http://www.netbsd.org/~dholland/patchkits/.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost