Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/net/syncthing

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Frédéric Fauberteau <triaxx%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:

> Le 2019-07-15 22:19, Greg Troxel a écrit :
>> Frédéric Fauberteau <triaxx%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
>>
>>> Le 2019-07-15 13:48, Greg Troxel a écrit :
>>>> This needs to be patched out for pkgsrc.  Could you take care of
>>>> this?
>>>> (I would have asked this as $MAINTAINER had you asked me about the
>>>> update and I realize this.  Not a big deal to have it briefly of
>>>> course.)
>>>
>>> Sorry, I tested it and it worked fine. But I should run pkglint to
>>> remember me to only commit changes that ___%NetBSD.org@localhost would approve.
>>
>> I didn't mean that the protocol had issues with android.
>>
>> I meant that in pkgsrc we do not allow phone-home behavior (version
>> checks, stats reporting, crash reports without user confirmation), and
>> thus patch the code to change those defaults.
>
> Ok, I did not identify this issue. Can I revert to a pkgsrc-compliant
> version?

I would really rather we figure out how to patch out the behavior; the
new version is definitely progress and the old one isn't going to be
maintained.  This isn't urgent - pkgsrc surely has a lot of other such
issues.  I would just like us to keep an eye on this and fix problems as
we find them.