Re: pkg/47488: textproc/xalan-c got removed; find replacement in wip/xalan-c

[Noud de Brouwer <noud4%home.nl@localhost>]

On Fri, 2013-02-01 at 21:11 +0100, is%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 07:12:27PM +0000, Noud de Brouwer wrote:
> 
> To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, c-users%xalan.apache.org@localhost, 
> dev%xalan.apache.org@localhost       
> Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
> pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,     
>         tech-pkg%netbsd.org@localhost                                         
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> Subject: Re: pkg/47488: textproc/xalan-c got removed; find replacement in     
>   
> 
> (...)
> 
> This is *so* wrong in so many respects.
> 
> tech-pkg is about pkgsrc *infrastructure* (basically - pkgtools, the mk

the procedures are part the infrastructure.
-- noud
> subtree, and maybe generic methods to access shells, compilers, language
> interpreters etc for the purpose of building or executing pkgsrc-built
> software. It's wrong most of the time when you write about individual 
> packages.
> 
> gnats-bugs is for replying to existing PRs. It should not be intermixed
> with external traffic, as it will make the noted PR unreadable.
> 
> pkgsrc-bugs is for followups to such gen generic instructions
> 
> the -admin is the sender address for gnats' messages about PR changes.
> 
> Using all at once is bad, especially intermixed with messages to outside
> people/lists.
> 
> If you want to clarify a software's status, please do so and
> summarize results to the referring PR if one exists, or to tech-pkg
> *or* pkgsrc-users (depending of what seems more appropriate) or maybe
> the noted package maintainer.
> 
> Regards,
>       -is