Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/misc
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Krister Walfridsson <cato@df.lth.se>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 01/17/2004 21:49:41
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004, Krister Walfridsson wrote:
>
> > Log Message:
> > Remove kstars. This version is rather old, and a newer version of
> > kstars is included in the misc/kdeedu3 package.
>
> I had an update (probably old) for kstars in PR pkg/21814.
>
> >From my diary:
>
> pkg/21814: misc/kstars doesn't build; patch to update it
> Note that it is version 1.0. This is the number in the ChangeLog
> and kstars developer, Jason Harris, told me:
> <blockquote>
> There will never be another release of version 1.0, the CVS snapshot is
> the "real" 1.0 release. We didn't call it kstars-1.0 on the webpage
> because as an official KDE project, we are not supposed to make
> independent releases. To make it clear that this was not an official KDE
> release, we used the cvs-date versioning instead.
> </blockquote>
Yes, I actually started to fix PR pkg/21814, but I noted that the
kstars homepage contains the following text:
Note to packagers: If your distribution normally ships a kdeedu
package, rather than individual packages for each app, _please_do_
_not_package_the_CVS_snapshot_.
so I thought it was appropriate to remove it...
/Krister