Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Re: net/dendrite out of date

On 2023/08/30 22:16, Stefan Hagen wrote:
> > per the tool used to track which ports are outdated, we have 1491
> > outdated sources, which represents 16.30% of all the sources.

some of those are bogus, but it misses some too.

> > it's pointless to report outdated packages on the mailing list
>
> I think it's fine to report outdated ports. It helps with deciding which
> of the 1491 outdated ports to look at next.

better with a diff or at least an offer to test, though

> And someone who asks for an
> update is probably able to test the port.

sometimes...but often seems not to be the case.

> Here is an update for dendrite to 0.13.2.
>
> I removed the broken marker because guic-go was updated and builds now.
>
> I did not do a runtime test, because there's neither a README, nor a
> manpage (or anything in ../doc) that explains how to set this up.

poor/missing docs is not unusual for go ports, sadly. pkg-readmes would
really help in those cases.

looks ok from a read-through, but otherwise untested. non-BROKEN is
usually an improvement ;)

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