[kde-freebsd] libdraw-kder - no longer builds on gcck

[Sergey A. Osokin]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 07:02:16AM +0200, John Marino wrote:
> On 6/9/2015 02:47, Sergey A. Osokin wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 11:57:34PM +0200, John Marino wrote:
> 
> >> Hi Sergey,
> >> Okay, we'll the maintainer is "kde@".
> >> kde4 is broken now on FreeBSD 8 and 9 (libdraw-kde4 takes out 50
> >> packages) so this is pretty serious.
> > 
> > Hi John,
> > 
> > if it's serious, it's up to maintainer to provide a fix for the issue, this is open source world.
> > I'm not using KDE4, so, I don't think I can help in this case.
> 
> I can't say I really agree with either sentiment here.
> Generally if one updates a port that others depend on, there is some
> responsibility for fallout.  It's not really fair to hold downstream
> ports accountable for others actions when they weren't even notified.
> 
> Secondly, one doesn't have to run KDE4 to "help".  They only have to try
> to build libdraw-kde4 (a port KDE4 depends on).  Poudriere testport
> would preload it's requirements and and "-i" would give a prompt after
> the build.
> 
> I don't use KDE4 either but I know it's possible to trouble this problem
> without it.
> 
> >> I think chances are pretty good that this is a direct result (fallout)
> >> of updating libraw so we might be talking about a revert here.
> > 
> > Well, I don't think that's possible to revert back last changes for libraw cause it was
> > security update.
> 
> Well, sure it's possible.
> 
> It's probably not the recommended approach -- it's probably better to
> make libkdraw-kde4 build with it, but I think all options are available.
> 
> I think I'd even add a comment to libraw to not update again without
> confirming kde4 still builds.
> 
> In the end, basically libkdraw-kde4 (or libraw) is missing a compiler
> flag.  It's probably an easy fix.  It's probably taking longer to write
> emails than it is to fix it.
> 
> Later, I'm off to the airport now.

I've just dropped the maintainership for graphics/libraw and have a nice flight!

-- 
Sergey A. Osokin
osa at FreeBSD.org