Hi there, Here's a summary of administrative items related to contrib: 1. jolupa's (Jose's) repository Once again, it has been offline for some time (32 hours straight at this point); I'm going to disable it from being sync'ed but leave his ports in contrib for now. Jose, please let me know within reasonable time whether your repo is online again, or you moved it to a more reliable host. 2. perllocal.pod in ports from acrux and prologic I've reported this last week already: adesklets (acrux), p5-text-iconv(prologic) and p5-xml-twig(prologic) contain a file perllocal.pod. Quoting from http://crux.nu/Main/ContribRules, "Rules for contributors": "Fix bugs reported to the mailing list" I really hate playing police here, so please just fix the problems that get reported so we don't have to consider measures to make you comply to the rules. 3. Missing dependencies There was a rather unfriendly event on IRC, which wasn't really about the issue itself but how to communicate it. As mentioned earlier, I'd be happy if you guys could register in our bug tracking so users could simply file a bug report there. Please do that at https://crux.nu/bugs/ In addition, I'm working on some port validation scripts which should catch a number of typical errors most of us make from time to time. Since my current priorities lie with the 2.2 release, this might take some more time. The script to check for missing dependencies is close to be finished though, and I'll attach a preliminary list of missing ports to this file. Here's a list of missing deps per maintainer: 14 jolupa 13 Han Boetes 11 James Mills 9 Matt Housh 3 Jay Dolan 2 acrux 1 sten 1 Jürgen Daubert 1 Johannes Winkelmann Now, that's not at all bad, in fact dependencies going away is something we have to learn to cope with. I'd appreciate if everyone of us could look at the list of missing deps, and maybe sync-tag(tm) whatever he already has in his repo and previously omitted since it was already in contrib. Also, if you don't want to provide dependencies for a port, please remove the .sync file so we get a consistent collection. Having more regular reports on this should help to keep the number of missing dependencies at a minimum. So much for now, thanks for all your efforts in providing packages to the CRUX users! I think it's been well received and appreciated so far, and even more after the 2.2 release when everyone will learn about contrib from the handbook, which should push its acceptance and distribution even more. Best regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Zurich, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net