Re: [clc-devel] The question of maintainer protocol

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 01:50 -0700, Nick Steeves wrote:

Hi,

Yes, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for replying. One other case I've been wondering about: What if updating own port a, which depends on someone else's port b, cannot build without an update to b? Currently, I fork a httpup version to publish along side updated port a, while contrib's a remains old.

To answer the first, I have generally emailed the maintainer in the past. If a port is unmaintained, I don't feel bad about updating it myself, but if it's got an active maintainer listed, I mail said maintainer an update. As for the second, I also fork an httpup version of it and then follow the first bit. :) Matt (jaeger@freenode/#crux)