Am 18.08.2011 08:20, schrieb Chris Rees: > On 18 August 2011 09:03, <per...@pluto.rain.com> wrote: >> Chris Rees <utis...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> We don't want to provide broken software. >> >> Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com> wrote: >> >>> ... it's obsolete, broken, junk ... >> >> Unless there is more to this than is reported in those two PRs, >> I'd call it a considerable exaggeration to describe diskcheckd >> as "broken". >> >> * http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/115853 >> is shown as "closed", so presumably is no longer a problem. > > Wow, would it have been too difficult to actually READ the closing > message from Jeremy? I suggest you look again -- I've pasted it here > so you can see it. > > "The problem here is that the code does not do what the manpage says (or > vice-versa). The 3rd column does not specify frequency of checking, but > rather, over what duration of time to spread a single disk scan over. > Thus, 7 days would mean "spread the entire disk check at X rate over the > course of 7 days". There is still a bug in the code where large disks > will cause problems resulting in updateproctitle() never getting called, > and so on, but that's unrelated to this PR. I'm closing the PR because > trying to fix all of this should really be ben@'s responsibility. > (Sorry for sounding harsh.)" > > How does that indicate it's fixed? It's an 'abandoned' PR.
This would be a case for marking it suspended (or possibly analyzed, depending on which of these two fits best), rather than closing it. The status is also a statement... > Thank you for testing and investigating, this is what the port has > needed, and two days of being deprecated has achieved more than 18 > months of a PR being open. So the bottom line for this case is, we sometimes only get sufficient attention through deprecating ports. Unfortunately that approach might wear off some day. Too bad. :-( Do we need a "think twice before adding a port" habit? _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"