>Mike Jakubik wrote: >> On Mon, March 30, 2009 9:49 pm, Mark Linimon wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 09:04:30PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >>> >>>> If the existing maintainer has disappeared, one option would be for >>>> you to take over maintainership: Upgrade mailscanner yourself and >>>> submit the upgrade as a PR that also transfers maintainership to >>>> youself. If there's no response after about 2 weeks, the port is yours. >>>> >>> Actually, there is a 2-week timeout on updates, but a 3-month timeout >>> on maintainer inactivity for transferring maintainership. Vacations >>> can last more than 2 weeks :-) >>> >> >> I've just submitted a patch that updates this port to the latest version, >> perhaps we can squeeze it in before the freeze. >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=137747 >> >> Thanks. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" >> >I noticed a couple of things here. The 4.78.9 version is still listed as >Beta according to the MailScanner site, though the site may just not >have updated yet. Second, the patch submitted forces perl 5.10+ as a >requirement. I've seen nothing on the MailScanner site that says that >this is a requirement, and have had no problems myself using any of the
>Beta versions with perl 5.8.9_3. Given that upgrading perl is not >something to be done lightly, I was wondering what issues people were >seeing that 5.10 fixed. > >Thanks I am running quit a few Mailscanner servers, and they all failed under perl 5.8.9 This was on FreeBSD 6.x, 7.x and 8-Current that time, when i switched to 5.10.x or back to 5.8.8 my problems went away. if you google on FreeBSD perl 5.8.9 and mailscanner there are a lot of people reporting issues. Regards, Johan Hendriks No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.392 / Virus Database: 270.13.55/2301 - Release Date: 08/13/09 18:16:00 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
