On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 11:59:54AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2011-08-16, Paul Irofti <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 07:31:53AM -0600, David Coppa wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> Resubmitting now that the tree is unlocked.
> >> 
> >> The following diff updates minitube to its latest version (1.5).
> >> I've also added a patch to remove the check for new versions, 
> >> which is useless in a package.
> >
> > I like that (checking for updates), specially as the lazy maintainer that I 
> > am.
> >
> > So please leave that in.
> 
> It's not really helpful to a user, unless it can check for new OpenBSD
> packages - I think upstream would agree otherwise they wouldn't want to
> disable update checks for APP_MAC_STORE..

Yes, but this introduces another patch to maintain. Anyway, I don't feel
strongly about this, so if this is the general opinion/trend I will not
opose it.

> 
> IMO it's part of a maintainer's job to subscribe to the relevant
> announcement mailing lists and/or check the web page for updates (I have
> a script which checks a bunch of pages like this, where the relevant
> project has no announcement list or where they have one but don't use
> it reliably).
> 
> 

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