On 2022-01-01 06:58, Michael Fiano wrote:
Forgive me if this is not the correct forum. I've only been using FreeBSD for a a couple months after a couple decades of Linux, and I noticed some popular projects

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have ports that are severely out-dated:

sysutils/dunst is behind 5 releases, nearly a year old.
x11/rofi is behind 4 releases, more than a year old.

There were some others too, but these are the ones I remember. I was under the impression that ports were kept fairly up to date. I am also aware that this is volunteer work and someone might have to be nudged. Can someone point me to the
correct approach here?

Your best approach to this sort of thing is to file a pr(1) against the offending
ports, via bugzilla:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi


In addition, there are quite a few projects that I have relied on development Git checkouts of, but no such port exists for those (except editors/emacs-devel), as well as some strangely missing ports ((Perl 6/Raku's reference implementation: Rakudo). I started reading the Porter's Handbook, and I hope to soon begin a long
journey of maintaining such ports.

Thank you! :-)


Thank you,
Michael Fiano

-- Chris

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