On 2006-10-10 23:10:37 -0700, Mark Duling wrote:
Do others agree that for bug filing guidelines that bugs for MacPorts should generally be confined to installation and configuration issues, with exceptions roughly spelled out?
Yes, but if a patch exists upstream, then one may want the patch to be included in the port, in particular if the bug is important and releases aren't done much often. Examples: * vorbis-tools: the bug has been there for more than a year. https://svn.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/10821 (the patch may be important in languages with non-ASCII characters, as the bug affects both reading and writing ogg files). * MPFR: we don't do releases much often, as this requires testing on many architectures, and we are often very busy. But patches are provided on the web page. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)