why cvs port left on stable

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 6, 2013, at 13:30, Frank Schima wrote:

> On Nov 6, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
> 
>>   I am wondering why MacPorts has left their cvs port on the stable 1.11.23 release rather
>> than upgrading it to the feature 1.12.13 release and using the patches from Apple's cvs-45
>> release in Xcode 4.6...
>> 
>> http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/cvs/cvs-45/
>> 
>> Is there some reason this port is not being sync'd to Apple's last cvs release (since
>> that is now deprecated out of Mac OS X with Xcode 5)?
> 
> $ port info --maintainers cvs
> maintainers: nomaintainer at macports.org
> 
> Because the port has no maintainer and there are no update tickets filed against it. 

Also because we typically use stable versions of software in MacPorts, unless there’s a good reason not to. (And there may be a good reason here; I’m not sure.)