I fear that I have done something against the etiquette of MacPorts or
collaborative programming in a broader sense, so PLEASE if anyone has
suggestions for how I could have done this better and get the last bit
actually done (by someone who can) speak up.
In August I opened these bugs:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58890
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/58896
The first includes a simple tested patch to the Portfile to fix a build
flaw.
The second is a request for version update to fix a security issue.
These are housekeeping fixes. No coding required.
They both got hijacked into a massive overhaul of dovecot2:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/5236
The author of that PR apparently lost interest after a week and while
his PR got approved, the test build failed. I don't understand why and
don't have the time to learn whatever I'd need to learn about Travis and
Github to figure out the problem and offer a fix.
Today I discovered that the update portion has been overtaken by someone
else making a PR for an update to an even later version than I
requested. So there's still my one tiny fix to remove a truly pointless
dependency forest blocked by the abandoned overhaul PR.
I have submitted a new PR to fix the problem with 32-bit builds:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/5816
Sorry if I stepped on any toes in the process...
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Bill Cole
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(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
