Re: pkg/52561

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

* On 2018-11-25 at 23:45 GMT, David Holland wrote:

> The following reply was made to PR pkg/52561; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: pkg/52561
> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 23:42:35 +0000
> 
>  On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 10:00:02AM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
>   > [...]
>  
>  Am I correct in thinking the state of this PR is:
>  
>   - there is no problem as long as one turns on cwrappers;
>   - with old wrappers, untransform.sed is zorching shell scripts and we
>     aren't sure why;
>   - nobody really feels inclined to fix the old wrappers.

I'd agree.  SunOS is one of the platforms where legacy wrappers hurt the
most in terms of performance, so I certainly have no desire to fix them.
Again, I'd much rather spent the time fixing any packages that are
currently incompatible with cwrappers and its stricter requirements.

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