On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 12:27:48AM +0200, olli hauer wrote: > On 2014-07-05 19:09, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > > Hi, > > > > given ports@ ist listed as maintainer, you get the email. The Subject says > > it. The world has moved on; in March I had a hard time arguing, in July I > > just cannot anymore. We must switch to 2.4; whatever breaks needs fixing, > > but somehow other distributions have managed and we did not and keep > > screwing our users missing a lot of security features. > > > > Please fix! > > > > — > > Bjoern A. Zeeb "Come on. Learn, goddamn it.", WarGames, 1983 > > > Hi Bjoern, > > nothing against this change, except your complain comes a little bit late. > > The portstree was already tagged for 9.3 some days ago so this change would > be a possible issue for all users using the 9.3 packages. > > Before the default version can be changed a full expr. run by portmgr@ is > required and all possible issues should be fixed. > > Unluckily we have a rolling ports tree (not like RHEL and others where such a > change happens during new major releases) so there should be also a time > frame to warn users about such a change. > > I remember endless discussions about the removal of apache13 after it was > already deprecated nearly one year after upstream deprecation ...
Just provide the patch for the change and warn the user about the change, now, just do not MFH it to the quarterly branch, so the user willing to keep apache22 for a while can live on the quarterly branch for the next 3 months :) I don't see the problem for the people using 9.3 packages, if they want stability they will stay on quarterly branch which still provides by default apache22 for 3 month. Hopefully when pkg 1.3 will land we will be able to add new feature to the ports tree aka build the apache module for all supported apache version leading to anyone using package being able to chose the apache version they what whatever the default is (but we are not there yet :)) regards, Bapt
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