Document what to do if an outdated port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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software (mainly ports, but also externally maintained base
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system components such as BIND or various GNU
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utilities).</para>
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<para>For unmaintained ports (<makevar>MAINTAINER</makevar> contains
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<literal>ports@FreeBSD.org</literal>), such update notifications
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might get picked up by an interested
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committer, or you might be asked to provide a patch to update
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the port; providing it upfront will greatly improve your chances
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that the port will get updated in a timely manner.</para>
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<para>If the port is maintained, PRs announcing new upstream releases
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are usually not very useful since they generate supplementary work
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for the committers, and the maintainer likely knows already there is
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a new version, they have probably worked with the developers on it,
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they are probably testing to see there is no regression, etc.</para>
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<para>In either case, following the process described in <ulink
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url="&url.books.porters-handbook;/port-upgrading.html">Porter's
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Handbook</ulink> will yield the best results.</para>
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