On Oct 2, 2008, at 2:58 AM, C. Florian Ebeling wrote: > I posted a patch for this bug Sep. 16, and the maintainer did > not react. I know there was this maintainer timeout rule, but I > also remember that there was discussion about abandoning it. > Can I apply this change now?
I think the discussion was about changing the maintainer timeout, not abandoning it, but I don't think it got anywhere. It's still documented in the Guide that if a maintainer does not respond to a ticket in 72 hours, anybody else can take it, and I recommend still following that rule. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: MacPorts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:27 AM > Subject: [MacPorts] #16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without > forcing (-f) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > #16551: p5-mac-carbon does not install without forcing (-f) > ----------------------------------- > +---------------------------------------- > Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Type: defect | Status: new > Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs > Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 > Keywords: | Port: p5-mac-carbon > ----------------------------------- > +---------------------------------------- > The cause is a dependency "port:p5-test-simple". > > p5-test-simple overwrites files of the perl5.8 installation, and this > causes the failure, if -f is not present. (test-simple depends > on p5-test-harness, and that has the same problem as test-simple). > > It seems that p5-mac-carbon does not really need the port p5-test- > simple, > so it should be removed as a dependency. There were other ports which > declared test-simple as a dependency even though they didn't > really need > it, and this is probably just another case. > > Port p5-test-simple does not provide additional packages, but > rather an > update of perl5.8 components. So only ports which depend on these > updates > have to use p5-test-simple. Many may well work without, even if > they use > Test::Simple package. > > -- > Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/16551> > MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> > Ports system for Mac OS _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
