Re: TODO file

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:52:25PM +0100, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
> Agreed. But assuming a package is a work-in-progress then it would not
> make sense if there was nothing to do. At least bug commiters to push it
> to pkgsrc.

There can be other reasons for keeping a "finished" package in pkgsrc-wip:

- the package is tracking -beta or -devel versions whereas the stable
  releases are in pkgsrc proper (e.g. opera-devel, which is impossible to
  support security-wise).  Often these packages are "synced" into pkgsrc
  once the -beta versions become official releases (e.g. firefox2).

- there are licensing problems or other issues preventing the package from
  going to pkgsrc (e.g. jdk14)

        Geert

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