Document what to do if an outdated port

is noticed.

PR:		docs/80681
Submitted by:	Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
		Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@people.tecnik93.com>
Approved by:	trhodes (mentor)
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Jesus R. Camou 2005-07-19 21:37:15 +00:00
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software (mainly ports, but also externally maintained base
system components such as BIND or various GNU
utilities).</para>
<para>For unmaintained ports (<makevar>MAINTAINER</makevar> contains
<literal>ports@FreeBSD.org</literal>), such update notifications
might get picked up by an interested
committer, or you might be asked to provide a patch to update
the port; providing it upfront will greatly improve your chances
that the port will get updated in a timely manner.</para>
<para>If the port is maintained, PRs announcing new upstream releases
are usually not very useful since they generate supplementary work
for the committers, and the maintainer likely knows already there is
a new version, they have probably worked with the developers on it,
they are probably testing to see there is no regression, etc.</para>
<para>In either case, following the process described in <ulink
url="&url.books.porters-handbook;/port-upgrading.html">Porter's
Handbook</ulink> will yield the best results.</para>
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