Hi, I had a bit for free time this morning and submitted a proposed pull request to update txt2html to version 2.51:
https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/pull/27115 Best, -ranga > On Dec 16, 2024, at 5:48 AM, Bill Cole > <macportsusers-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: > > On 2024-12-16 at 07:53:41 UTC-0500 (Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:53:41 -0500) > Dan Hinckley <d...@suiattle.org <mailto:d...@suiattle.org>> > is rumored to have said: > > The version at MacPorts is 1.35, which I have installed, but it fails with: > >> $* is no longer supported as of Perl 5.30 at /opt/local/bin/txt2html line >> 1587 > > The current version is 2.51, which can be downloaded from Sourceforge > <https://sourceforge.net/projects/txt2html/files/>. Does txt2html have a > maintainer (I don't know how to check that)? > > It has none: > > $ port info txt2html > txt2html @1.35 (textproc) > > Description: txt2html is a Perl program that converts plain text to HTML. > It supports headings, lists, simple character markup, > hyperlinking,and is highly customizable. It recognizes some of > the structure of the source document (whitespace, typographic > layout, etc.), and attempts to mark that structure explicitly > using HTML. > Homepage: http://www.aigeek.com/txt2html/ > > Platforms: any > License: BSD > Maintainers: none > > > I have found that opening a ticket in the project's Trac system (or opening a > pull request on the Github repo if you have a working fix) attracts the > attention of the core team, who rapidly address anything that's not too > arcane, even in ports with no current maintainer. The txt2html portfile looks > extremely simple, so I expect that the update requires nothing more than > updating the version and the hash of the new version's distribution package. > > > b...@scconsult.com <mailto:b...@scconsult.com> or billc...@apache.org > <mailto:billc...@apache.org> > (AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social <mailto:grumpybozo@toad.social> and many > *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > Not Currently Available For Hire
