On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 07:02:16AM +0200, John Marino wrote: > On 6/9/2015 02:47, Sergey A. Osokin wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:57:34PM +0200, John Marino wrote: > > >> Hi Sergey, > >> Okay, we'll the maintainer is "kde@". > >> kde4 is broken now on FreeBSD 8 and 9 (libdraw-kde4 takes out 50 > >> packages) so this is pretty serious. > > > > Hi John, > > > > if it's serious, it's up to maintainer to provide a fix for the issue, this > > is open source world. > > I'm not using KDE4, so, I don't think I can help in this case. > > I can't say I really agree with either sentiment here. > Generally if one updates a port that others depend on, there is some > responsibility for fallout. It's not really fair to hold downstream > ports accountable for others actions when they weren't even notified. > > Secondly, one doesn't have to run KDE4 to "help". They only have to try > to build libdraw-kde4 (a port KDE4 depends on). Poudriere testport > would preload it's requirements and and "-i" would give a prompt after > the build. > > I don't use KDE4 either but I know it's possible to trouble this problem > without it. > > >> I think chances are pretty good that this is a direct result (fallout) > >> of updating libraw so we might be talking about a revert here. > > > > Well, I don't think that's possible to revert back last changes for libraw > > cause it was > > security update. > > Well, sure it's possible. > > It's probably not the recommended approach -- it's probably better to > make libkdraw-kde4 build with it, but I think all options are available. > > I think I'd even add a comment to libraw to not update again without > confirming kde4 still builds. > > In the end, basically libkdraw-kde4 (or libraw) is missing a compiler > flag. It's probably an easy fix. It's probably taking longer to write > emails than it is to fix it. > > Later, I'm off to the airport now.
I've just dropped the maintainership for graphics/libraw and have a nice flight! -- Sergey A. Osokin o...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information